The harvest and clinical application of the superficial peroneal sensory nerve for grafting motor and sensory nerve defects.

摘要: Potential donor nerves for autografting are finite and usually limited to cutaneous of the extremities. The superficial peroneal nerve is major lateral branch common that innervates peroneus longus brevis muscles provides sensation aspect lower leg dorsal foot. It has generally been overlooked as a potential autografts. Cadaver dissections were performed on 10 fresh extremity specimens investigate anatomic characteristics refine harvesting technique nerve. Thirty-one patients underwent grafting 39 upper using donor. There nine median nerves, four ulnar two radial brachial plexus lesions, 16 digital six grafted. provided consistently long donor, comparable in length sural nerve, pattern consistent, patient positioning simple, surgical straightforward, defect acceptable. safe valuable particularly cases where multiple or very grafts required.