Dr. Wesley Paul Thayer MD
Hand Surgeon | Surgery of the Hand
D-4207 Medical Center North Vanderbilt Medical C Nashville TN, 37232Rating
4/5
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Dr. Wesley Thayer is a hand surgeon practicing in Nashville, TN. Dr. Thayer specializes in caring for hand, wrist and forearm problems without the option of surgery unless necessary. Many hand surgeons are also experts in diagnosing and caring for shoulder and elbow problems and tend to suggest non-surgical treatments such as hand therapy or physical therapy.
Board Certification
Plastic SurgeryAmerican Board of Plastic SurgeryABPS- Surgery of the Hand
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- HLA-DM and the MHC class II antigen presentation pathway.
- A novel single chain I-A(b) molecule can stimulate and stain antigen-specific T cells.
- Absorbable plate strength loss during molding.
- Evaluation of FiberLoop sutures in locking and nonlocking tendon repair.
- Rapid, effective, and long-lasting behavioral recovery produced by microsutures, methylene blue, and polyethylene glycol after completely cutting rat sciatic nerves.
- Lack of emergency hand surgery: discrepancy between elective and emergency hand care.
- Hydrophilic polymers enhance early functional outcomes after nerve autografting.
- A simple technique for augmentation of axonal ingrowth into chondroitinase-treated acellular nerve grafts using nerve growth factor.
- Adjuvant radiation therapy increases disease-free survival in stage IB Merkel cell carcinoma.
- Blocking the P2X7 receptor improves outcomes after axonal fusion.
- Tennessee emergency hand care distributions and disparities: Emergent hand care disparities.
- Polyethylene glycol-fused allografts produce rapid behavioral recovery after ablation of sciatic nerve segments.
- Adjuvant neurotrophic factors in peripheral nerve repair with chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan-reduced acellular nerve allografts.
- 4.7-T diffusion tensor imaging of acute traumatic peripheral nerve injury.
- The curious ability of polyethylene glycol fusion technologies to restore lost behaviors after nerve severance.
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