End-to-side nerve coaptation is an additional proximal coaptation useful when available?
ANNALS OF PLASTIC SURGERY, vol.55, no.3, pp.281-288, 2005 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 55 Issue: 3
- Publication Date: 2005
- Doi Number: 10.1097/01.sap.0000171428.47890.13
- Journal Name: ANNALS OF PLASTIC SURGERY
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.281-288
- Keywords: coaptation, end-to-side neurorrhaphy, collateral sprouting, rat, TERMINOLATERAL NEURORRHAPHY, AXONAL REGENERATION, PERIPHERAL-NERVE, MOTOR, REMOVAL, SHEATH
- Bursa Uludag University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
The aim of this experimental study was to evaluate the effects of end-to-side coaptation of the proximal end of a severed nerve to the same intact nerve, in addition to traditional end-to-side coaptation of the distal end, with an aim to use the intact nerve as a nerve conduit in a rat model and to compare the functional and histologic results of this modality to those obtained after nerve grafting and traditional end-to-side nerve coaptation.