[Sensory sequelae of injuries to the median nerve]. 1992

D Le Nen, and B Rossignol, and B Fenoll, and F Dubrana, and B Courtois
Service d'Orthopédie-Traumatologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Brest, Hôpital Augustin Morvan.

Median nerve wounds are frequent because of the superficial course of this nerve, especially in the wrist. The sensory sequellae of such lesions, either complete or dissociated, represent a major handicap which may be associated to a motor impairment of the external thenar muscles. The curative procedures such as neurolysis and, above all, sutures or grafts, must be very widely used, even some time after the initial injury and in spite of motor reinnervation. The role of palliative surgery is therefore limited, although it is sometimes useful. There are many procedures, which may be summed up by two techniques: use of sensitive neurovascular skin flaps, the most frequent grafts, neurotization of the median nerve with a transfer of sensory rami from the radial nerve, a less-known technique. The treatment of the sensory sequellae of median nerve lesions is primarily based on a good initial management of the nerve lesions by a good-quality emergent microsurgical suture.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008475 Median Nerve A major nerve of the upper extremity. In humans, the fibers of the median nerve originate in the lower cervical and upper thoracic spinal cord (usually C6 to T1), travel via the brachial plexus, and supply sensory and motor innervation to parts of the forearm and hand. Median Nerves,Nerve, Median,Nerves, Median
D008866 Microsurgery The performance of surgical procedures with the aid of a microscope.
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013524 Surgical Flaps Tongues of skin and subcutaneous tissue, sometimes including muscle, cut away from the underlying parts but often still attached at one end. They retain their own microvasculature which is also transferred to the new site. They are often used in plastic surgery for filling a defect in a neighboring region. Island Flap,Island Flaps,Flap, Surgical,Flaps, Surgical,Pedicled Flap,Surgical Flap,Flap, Island,Flap, Pedicled,Flaps, Island,Flaps, Pedicled,Pedicled Flaps
D016067 Nerve Transfer Surgical reinnervation of a denervated peripheral target using a healthy donor nerve and/or its proximal stump. The direct connection is usually made to a healthy postlesional distal portion of a non-functioning nerve or implanted directly into denervated muscle or insensitive skin. Nerve sprouts will grow from the transferred nerve into the denervated elements and establish contact between them and the neurons that formerly controlled another area. Nerve Crossover,Neurotization,Crossover, Nerve,Crossovers, Nerve,Nerve Crossovers,Nerve Transfers,Neurotizations,Transfer, Nerve,Transfers, Nerve

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