Percentage of nerve injuries in which primary repair can be achieved by end-to-end approximation: Review of 2,181 nerve lesions
✍ Scribed by Luis de Medinaceli; Marina Prayon; Michel Merle
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 273 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0738-1085
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Primary nerve repair yields better results than secondary reconstruction but is not always possible. We reviewed a series of 2,181 fresh nerve injuries of the upper limb. One nerve only was injured in 41% of the patients; two or more in 59%. One thousand four hundred eighty‐two injuries (68%) were located in the digits. The injured limb segment was lost or beyond repair in 387 cases (18% of all cases). In the 1,794 remaining injuries, primary treatment was accomplished by end‐to‐end suture 1,568 times (87%) and by graft 33 times (>2%) and was impossible in 193 cases (11%). © 1993 Wiley‐Liss Inc.