[Hanging legs for sural nerve excision (author's transl)].
The sural nerve is widely used as a graft in autologous nerve transplantation. In major operations on the upper extremities and the brachial plexus the lateral or ventral position of the patient most convenient for harvesting the graft is impossible. It is, however, easy to excise the sural nerve if the legs are hanging.
D006801:Humans; D011187:Posture; D013127:Spinal Nerves / Q000637:transplantation*; D013497:Sural Nerve / Q000637:transplantation*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous / Q000379:methods
Erleichterung der Suralisentnahme durch Aufhängen der Beine.