The effect of vascular pedicle preservation on blood flow and clinical outcome following ulnar nerve transposition

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 291-302

  Nakamura, Koichi ^a   Uchiyama, Shigeharu ^a   Ido, Yoshikazu ^a   Itsubo, Toshiro ^a   Hayashi, Masanori ^a   Murakami, Hironori ^a   Sato, Nobutaka ^a   Imaeda, Toshihiko ^a   Kato, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

blood flow; cubital tunnel syndrome; laser Doppler flowmeter; nerve transposition; Ulnar nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBITAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; DISABILITIES OF THE ARM, SHOULDER AND HAND (SCORE); FEMALE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FOLLOW UP; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PINCH STRENGTH; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULNAR NERVE; ULNAR NERVE TRANSPOSITION; VASCULAR PEDICLE; VASCULAR PEDICLE SPARING SURGERY; VASCULAR SURGERY; VERY ELDERLY;

BLOOD FLOW; CUBITAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETER; NERVE TRANSPOSITION; ULNAR NERVE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CUBITAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; ELBOW JOINT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRANSFER; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SURGICAL FLAPS; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 84893353435     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2013.10.029     Document Type: Article

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