Median nerve fascicular anatomy as a basis for distal neural prostheses

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 196, Issue 2-3, 2014, Pages 144-149

  Planitzer, Uwe ^a   Steinke, Hanno ^a   Meixensberger, Jürgen ^a   Bechmann, Ingo ^a   Hammer, Niels ^a   Winkler, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Electrical stimulation; Median nerve fascicles; Prosthesis; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTAL NEURAL PROSTHESIS; EPINEURIUM; FEMALE; FOREARM; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HAND; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INNERVATION; LUMBRICAL MUSCLE; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MEDIAN NERVE FASCICLE; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE PLEXUS; NEUROPROSTHESIS; SENSORY NERVE; THENAR EMINENCE; ULNAR NERVE; ANATOMY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CADAVER; CYTOLOGY; DISSECTION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MOTONEURON; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; SENSORY NERVE CELL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; CADAVER; DISSECTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL PROSTHESES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 84901288105     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: 16180402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2013.11.002     Document Type: Article

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