Digital Nerve-grafting for Traumatic Defects. Use of the Lateral Antebrachial Cutaneous Nerve

Overview

Journal J Bone Joint Surg Am

Specialties General Surgery
Orthopedics

Date 1984 Dec 1

PMID 6501333

Citations 5

Authors

J R Tenny

R C Lewis

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Abstract

We used segments of the lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve to graft defects in forty-two digital nerves in thirty-five patients. Age was a more important prognostic indicator for functional sensibility than either the length of the nerve graft or the time-interval from injury to grafting. The younger patients did better. A battery of eight tests was used to determine functional sensibility scores. All patients improved and 40 per cent had completely normal sensibility.

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