The effects of ultrasonic and electrosurgery devices on nerve physiology

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 856-863

  Chen, Chaoyang ^a   Kallakuri, Srinivasu ^a   Vedpathak, Anuja ^a   Chimakurthy, Chandrasekhar ^a   Cavanaugh, John M ^a   Clymer, Jeffrey W ^b   Malaviya, Prasanna ^b  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

^b ETHICON INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrosurgery; Harmonic; Nerve injury; Neurophysiology; Ultrasonic surgical devices

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; ELECTROSURGERY; HARMONIC BLADE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INCISION; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; ULTRASOUND SURGERY;

ANIMALS; ELECTROSURGERY; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; ULTRASONIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84870270883     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: 1360046X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02688697.2012.697216     Document Type: Article

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