Repair of sensory nerves distal to the wrist.
Treatment of patients with severed distal sensory nerves is an exercise in simultaneous gratification and frustration. The gratification comes from realizing that the results of distal sensory nerve repair exceed those obtained after repair of other nerves. The frustration follows from the knowledge that truly normal sensation virtually never follows the most successful repair.
D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records; D009431:Neural Conduction; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D009463:Neuroma / Q000601:surgery; D010525:Peripheral Nerves / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery* / Q000637:transplantation; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D011184:Postoperative Period; D012677:Sensation; D014953:Wrist / Q000294:innervation*