The use of a trifurcation of the lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve for digital nerve grafting
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1-2009
Abstract
A 17-year-old male was stabbed. The digital nerves to his thumb and radial aspect of the index finger were divided completely and repaired with the FPL tendon and both tendons to the index finger. At 3-months postoperatively there was no recovery of sensibility and the repair was explored. The digital nerve repairs had ruptured at the branching of a large single cutaneous branch of the median nerve into three smaller digital nerves supplying the thumb and the radial aspect of the index finger. The neuroma was excised leaving a gap of 2 cm.
Keywords
Orthopaedic Surgery
Divisions
fac_med
Publication Title
Journal of Hand Surgery British & European Volume
Volume
34
Issue
4
Publisher
Elsevier
Additional Information
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Malaya Medical Centre, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, E-mail: cheekidd_chiu@imu.edu.my