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Funicular Orientation by Electrical Stimulation and Internal Neurolysis in Peripheral Nerve Suture

Matsumoto, Japan

Eleven peripheral nerve lacerations around the wrists of ten patients were treated with funicular suture or nerve graft.

In three freshly lacerated nerves funicular orientation could be made only by electrical stimulation to both cut ends.

The electrophysiological method was also utilised to obtain funicular orientation of a proximal stump in eight old nerve lacerations. However, funicular orientation of the distal stump of old lacerations, which was not responsive to electrical stimulation, was performed anatomically by internal neurolysis from a terminal branching area up to a distal stump.

By six months after the operation, motor and sensory functions of the patients with funicular suture had recovered to an excellent degree with rapid reinnervation.

The Hand, Original Series, Volume 12, No. 1, 65-74 (1980)
DOI: 10.1016/S0072-968X(80)80032-5


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