SFI = sciatic functional index? or Some feebler imitation?
✍ Scribed by Michel Merle
- Book ID
- 102511593
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 82 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0738-1085
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✦ Synopsis
In a recent paper, "A comparison of nerve grafting and tissue expansion techniques in the rat" (Microsurgery 15: 439-442, 1994), GD Hall et al. report that about half of normal function was recovered after grafting of the sciatic nerve in the rat. This result, which corresponds to M2-M3 and S2-S3 in man, is surprisingly good, all the more because the authors say that they measured function with the sciatic functional index (SFI). SFI, a method of functional assessment developed by Medinaceli et al. in 1982l.' is well known for eliminating false positive results.
However, a closer look at the Methods section in the paper of Hall et al. shows that actually they did not use the