Digital nerve grafts with the lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve.
The lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve was used as a nerve graft to bridge a defect in a digital nerve, when with the digit in full extension the nerve ends could not be approximated without tension. Thirteen grafts have been followed from 7 to 23 months. Two patients did not regain two point discrimination and therefore had a poor result. The remaining 11 patients recovered two point discrimination between 7 and 20 mm.
D000328:Adult; D005385:Fingers / Q000294:innervation* / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009138:Musculocutaneous Nerve / Q000637:transplantation*; D011826:Radial Nerve / Q000601:surgery*; D012677:Sensation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014459:Ulnar Nerve / Q000601:surgery*