Nerve recovery from treatment with a vascularized nerve graft compared to an autologous non-vascularized nerve graft in animal models: A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Berend O. Broeren ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: berend.broeren@radboudumc.nl

  Affiliation Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0198-8941

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• Liron S. Duraku,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Caroline A. Hundepool,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Erik T. Walbeehm,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• J. Michiel Zuidam,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Carlijn R. Hooijmans,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department for Health Evidence Unit SYRCLE, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Department of Anesthesiology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Tim De Jong

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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