Comparison of results between chitosan hollow tube and autologous nerve graft in reconstruction of peripheral nerve defect: An experimental study

Microsurgery

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 664-671

  Shapira, Yuval ^a   Tolmasov, Michael ^a   Nissan, Moshe ^a   Reider, Evgeniy ^b   Koren, Akiva ^a   Biron, Tali ^a   Bitan, Yifat ^a   Livnat, Mira ^a   Ronchi, Giulia ^c   Geuna, Stefano ^c   Rochkind, Shimon ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITOSAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CHITOSAN HOLLOW TUBE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE MASS; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE GROWTH; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; TUBE; WEIGHT GAIN; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; INJURIES; NEUROSURGERY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PROCEDURES; TISSUE REGENERATION; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CHITOSAN; FEMALE; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84928254381     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.22418     Document Type: Article

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