title: Obturator nerve injuries during intra-abdominal surgery.
abstract: Selective obturatory nerve lesions are described to occur relatively infrequent. In the present paper two patients developing signs and symptoms of an obturatory neuropathy as a result of abdominal surgery were reported. In a 48-year-old woman a bilateral obturator neuropathy occurred after bilateral ovarectomy with a weakness of the adductor muscles, typical electromyographic findings and sensory deficits in the medial aspect of the thigh. Similar unilateral signs and symptoms were seen in a 65-years-old man as a result of an aortofemoral bypass operation. Symptomatology and differential diagnosis of obturator nerve lesions are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Goettingen, FRG.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bischoff
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Schönle
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000601:surgery*; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009776:Obturator Nerve / Q000293:injuries*