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It can be presumed that any materials interposed into traumatic nerve gaps serve only as guiding vehicles for regenerating axons growing toward the periphery, and many ideas about using guides or conduits (tubes) other than a piece of donor nerve have therefore been discussed. Reviews are provided by Weiss as early as 1944 [17] and recently by Fields Ellisman in 1989 [3] and by ourselves in 1992 [16]. Still, the procedure of microsurgical autologous nerve grafting remains the clinically routine method in dealing with peripheral nerve lesions caused by transection trauma and subsequent gap.
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Müller, H., Dombert, T., Arnold, H. (1993). Alternatives to Autologous Nerve Grafting. In: Lorenz, R., Klinger, M., Brock, M. (eds) Intracerebral Hemorrhage Hydrocephalus malresorptivus Peripheral Nerves. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77997-8_44
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