Peripheral nerve allograft, a reconstructive solution: Outcomes and benefits

Chirurgia (Romania)

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 438-441

  Aetefanescu, O ^a   Jecan, R ^a   Badoiu, S ^a   Enescu, D M ^b   Lascar, I ^c  

^a Clinical Emergency Hospital   (Romania)

^b Clinic of Plastic Surgery Reconstructive Microsurgery and Burns   (Romania)

^c Floreasca Emergency Hospital   (Romania)

Author keywords

Clinical findings; Harvesting from donor's cadaver; Limitations; Living donor; Nerve allograft; Nerve defect; Opportunities; Peripheral nerve

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARM; CADAVER; HAND; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INJURY; INNERVATION; LIVING DONOR; METHODOLOGY; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PLASTIC SURGERY; REVIEW; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CADAVER; HAND; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVING DONORS; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84874083908     PISSN: 12219118     EISSN: 1842368X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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