Evaluation of sensory recovery after reconstruction of digital nerves of the hand using muscle-in-vein conduits in comparison to nerve suture or nerve autografting

Microsurgery

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 608-615

  Manoli, Theodora ^a   Schulz, Lukas ^a   Stahl, Stephane ^a   Jaminet, Patrick ^a   Schaller, Hans Eberhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DONOR SITE; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; FOLLOW UP; HAND RECONSTRUCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MUSCLE IN VEIN CONDUIT; NERVE AUTOGRAFTING; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE INJURY; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SUTURE; SEMMES WEINSTEIN MONOFILAMENT TEST; SENSATION; SENSORY NERVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; AGED; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HAND INJURIES; INNERVATION; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SURGICALLY CREATED STRUCTURE; SUTURING METHOD; TRANSPLANTATION; VEIN; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSATION; SURGICALLY-CREATED STRUCTURES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907874904     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.22302     Document Type: Article

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