The management of digital nerve injuries

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1208-1215

  Slutsky, David J ^a  

^a The Hand and Wrist Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

conduits; digital; graft; Nerve; repair

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; FIBRIN GLUE; POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID;

ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DIGITAL NERVE INJURY; DONOR SELECTION; EXERCISE; FINGER INJURY; FUNCTIONAL TRAINING; HAND PALM; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; LACERATION; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MICROSURGERY; MOBILIZATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE INJURY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE STUMP; NERVE SURGERY; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROTROPISM; NYLON SUTURE; PHALANX; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSED NERVE ALLOGRAFT; RADIAL NERVE; RANGE OF MOTION; REHABILITATION CARE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN NERVE; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL MICROSCOPE; THUMB INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNAR NERVE; WOUND CLOSURE; FINGER; FINGER INJURIES; INNERVATION; NEUROSURGERY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PROCEDURES; SURGERY;

FINGER INJURIES; FINGERS; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PERIPHERAL NERVES;

EID: 84901419945     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2013.12.012     Document Type: Review

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