title: Comparison of blood flow in free vascularized versus nonvascularized nerve grafts.
abstract: The present study was undertaken to compare blood flow between conventional nerve grafts and surgically revascularized grafts. Paired comparisons of blood flow data between a 10 cm segment of vascularized nerve graft and a 10 cm segment of conventional nerve graft in a canine model established that blood flow in the nonvascularized grafts was significantly greater (p less than 0.001) than that in the paired vascularized grafts. The rationale for difficult and time-consuming vascularized nerve grafting procedures may therefore not be warranted.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs; D006614:Hindlimb / Q000294:innervation; D008866:Microsurgery; D010525:Peripheral Nerves / Q000098:blood supply / Q000637:transplantation*; D012039:Regional Blood Flow