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The radio-radial nerve transfer for elbow extension restoration in C5 to C7 nerve root injury

✍ Scribed by Leandro Pretto Flores

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 555 KB
Volume: 32
Category: Article
ISSN: 0738-1085
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20964

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Abstract

Extension of the elbow is required to oppose gravity; however, activation of the triceps brachii is frequently underestimated during the surgical planning for brachial plexus injuries. This report aims to describe a novel technique of distal nerve transfer designed for elbow extension reconstruction in patients sustaining a C5–C7 nerve root injury. We report a patient sustaining a brachial plexus injury with triceps palsy and preserved finger extension motion; after careful intraneural dissection of the radial nerve, a fascicle innervating the extensor digitorum communis muscle was sectioned, derouted and connected to a motor branch to the lateral head of the triceps. Eleven months after surgery, elbow extension strength scored MRC M4. No deficits on finger extension were observed. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microsurgery, 2012.

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