Clinical aspects of ballistic peripheral nerve injury: Shrapnel versus gunshot

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 156, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1567-1575

  Rochkind, Shimon ^a   Strauss, Ido ^a   Shlitner, Zvi ^a   Alon, Malvina ^a   Reider, Evgeny ^a   Graif, Moshe ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ballistic peripheral nerve injury; Outcome; Surgical management

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREIGN BODY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEUROLYSIS; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SHRAPNEL INJURY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; YOUNG ADULT; COMPLICATION; NEUROSURGERY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROCEDURES; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904425915     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-014-2139-0     Document Type: Article

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