In severe cases, a surgical procedure called nerve grafting can be used to remove the damaged part of the facial nerve and replace it with nerve tissues taken from another part of the body. It is a ...

Four cables of a sural nerve graft were utilised to span the gap for reasons outlined above. Owing to the proximal nature of the injury as well as a delay in diagnosis, a distal nerve transfer was ...

We also included individuals subjected to skin flaps, in which the donor area would need a skin graft for closure ... Of these 4, 3 were treated with flaps in the left lower limb—sural flap—and 1 (25% ...

For more detailed information on nerve repair and grafting, the reader is referred to Orthopaedic Care: Medical and Surgical Management of Musculoskeletal Disorders (www.orthotextbook.net), which ...

and the glucose 64 mg. per 100 ml. Photomicrograph (Transverse Section) of a Sural-Nerve Biopsy (1 per Cent Osmium Tetroxide Stain X625), Showing Multiple Axons with Myelin Loss. Figure 3 ...

Objectives: To determine the functional outcome after facial nerve reconstruction surgery in patients with flaccid facial paralysis. Methods: A systematic review and meta-analysis was performed on ...

1943). However, unless neurorrhaphy is performed within a day after injury, the stumps of a transected nerve recoil and a gap is formed, making tension-free coaptation impossible. A graft is then ...

This week we are going to discuss sural neuritis, which is a nerve irritation of the sural nerve in the lower leg that can mimic other conditions such as a 5th metatarsal fracture, an Achilles ...