title: Autogenous vein and nerve grafts: a comparative study of nerve regeneration in the rat.
abstract: A new experimental model using the rat sciatic nerve has been devised and used in ten rats to compare the results of using a vein and a nerve graft in different fascicles of the same sciatic nerve, a third fascicle being preserved intact as a control. The results, judged clinically, electrophysiologically and histologically, show persistence of the vein graft as a conduit even six months after the operation and a similar pattern of nerve regeneration in the two different grafts.
authors.affiliation: University of Messina School of Medicine, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Risitano
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cavallaro
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lentini
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005268:Femoral Vein / Q000473:pathology / Q000637:transplantation; D009416:Nerve Regeneration; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012584:Sciatic Nerve / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology* / Q000637:transplantation; D013997:Time Factors; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous