Treating Peripheral Nerve Injuries
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Use of superficial peroneal nerve graft for treating peripheral nerve injuries.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical results from treating chronic peripheral nerve injuries using the superficial peroneal nerve as a graft donor source. METHODS This was a study on eleven patients with peripheral nerve injuries in the upper limbs that were treated with grafts from the sensitive branch of the superficial peroneal nerve. The mean time interval between the dates of the injury an...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Japanese Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1881-3526,1881-8560
DOI: 10.2490/jjrmc.51.52