) causing partial nerve injuries; i.e. a neuroma-in-continuity (i.e. all degrees of nerve injury may co-exist). Surgical exploration is necessary, using electrodiagnostic methods intra-operatively, and tentative nerve reconstruction with nerve grafts due to
Marko Bumbasirevic, Tomislav Palibrk, Aleksandar Lesic, and Henry DE Atkinson
transfer In cases of radial nerve palsy when there is no possibility of radial nerve reconstruction or tendon or nerve transfers with a free functional muscle transfer, the loss of elbow or wrist end finger extension can be re-gained. 69 Functional
Timothy Bage and Dominic M. Power
allograft. The use of autologous graft creates another site of deficit at the donor site and potentially a risk of painful neuroma formation at the proximally transected nerve. The sural nerve is used for large mixed nerve reconstruction and a series of
Deepak Samson, Chye Yew Ng, and Dominic Power
transfers: recent trends with expanding indication . J Hand Surg Am 2007 ; 32 : 397 - 408 37 White CP , Cooper MJ , Bain JR , Levis CM . Axon counts of potential nerve transfer donors for peroneal nerve
Duncan Avis and Dominic Power
. 33. Terzis JK Kokkalis ZT . Shoulder function following primary axillary nerve reconstruction in obstetrical brachial plexus patients . Plast Reconstr Surg 2008 ; 122 : 1457 - 69 . 34. Degeorges R Lebellec
Marianne Arner
seven hand surgery departments at university hospitals in Sweden, performing all kinds of hand surgery including that relating to acute hand trauma – such as microsurgical reconstructions and joint, tendon, ligament and nerve reconstructions – as well as