title: [Painful paresthesia after removal of the sural nerve for autologous nerve transplantation].
abstract: The sural nerve is the most common nerve serving as a donor in an autologeous nerve grafting procedure. However, there is a certain risk for the development of painful paraesthesias at the donor site. Patients in whom a short segment of the sural nerve was resected are suspected to have a greater risk. In a retrospective study we investigated the incidence of painful paraesthesias following removal of a segment of the sural nerve for a grafting procedure. The study includes 41 patients, who were followed at least for one year after surgery (mean 30 months). 9 patients (22%) complained of persisting painful paraesthesias at the donor site suggesting a neuroma at the proximal stump of the sural nerve. The comparison of the length of the nerve segment harvested for grafting shows a tendency for patients with shorter segments having a greater risk to develop painful paraesthesias. However, the difference between the two groups was statistically not significant.
authors.affiliation: Neurochirurgische Abteilung, Universität Ulm im Bezirkskrankenhaus Günzburg.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Oberle
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Richter
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009463:Neuroma / Q000209:etiology; D010292:Paresthesia / Q000209:etiology*; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013497:Sural Nerve / Q000637:transplantation*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous
vernacular_title: Schmerzhafte Paraesthesien nach Entnahme des Nervus suralis zur autologen Nerventransplantation.