Common Peroneal Nerve Grafting to Repair the Tibial Nerve as a Salvage Procedure in the Treatment of Sciatic Nerve Injury with Long-Segment Defects

Common Peroneal Nerve Grafting to Repair the Tibial Nerve as a Salvage Procedure in the Treatment of Sciatic Nerve Injury with Long-Segment Defects

Abstract Background In sciatic nerve neuropathies, when direct nerve repair is impossible due to a large gap, nerve grafting can be performed. However, the diameters of traditional autologous nerve grafts are too small to cover the whole cross-sectional area of the sciatic nerve. The ai...

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Main Authors: Haodong Lin, Desong Chen, Chunlin Hou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery Open
Subjects:
sciatic nerve
nerve graft
plantar flexion
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0038-1653951

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