Nerve Transfers: Indications, Techniques, and Outcomes

Overview

Journal J Hand Surg Am

Publisher Elsevier

Date 2010 Feb 10

PMID 20141906

Citations 59

Authors

Thomas H Tung

Susan E Mackinnon

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Abstract

This article provides an update of the current strategies of motor and sensory nerve transfers for peripheral nerve lesions of the upper extremity. Indications, techniques, and outcomes are summarized for both well-established transfers used in the management of proximal and brachial plexus injuries as well as those more recently developed for more distal and isolated nerve injuries in the forearm and hand.

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