Approaches to peripheral nerve repair: Generations of biomaterial conduits yielding to replacing autologous nerve grafts in craniomaxillofacial surgery

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2016, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Gaudin, Robert ^a   Knipfer, Christian ^b   Henningsen, Anders ^c   Smeets, Ralf ^b   Heiland, Max ^b   Hadlock, Tessa ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Hamburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; FILLER; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUROTROPHIN 4; POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; SCLEROPROTEIN; SILK FIBROIN;

CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DEVICE MATERIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY; NERVE CONDUIT; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROLOGICAL IMPLANT; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; REVIEW; SCHWANN CELL; SKULL SURGERY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FACIAL BONE; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY; SURGERY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FACIAL BONES; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; HUMANS; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84984991277     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2016/3856262     Document Type: Review

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