Peripheral nerve lengthening as a regenerative strategy
Kenneth M.Vaz
Justin M.Brown
Sameer B.Shah
摘要：Peripheral nerve injury impairs motor, sensory, and autonomic function, incurring substantial ifnancial costs and diminished quality of life. For large nerve gaps, proximal lesions, or chronic nerve injury, the prognosis for recovery is particularly poor, even with autografts, the current gold standard for treating small to moderate nerve gaps. In vivo elongation of intact proximal stumps towards the injured distal stumps of severed peripheral nerves may offer a promising new strategy to treat nerve injury. This review describes several nerve lengthening strategies, in-cluding a novel internal ifxator device that enables rapid and distal reconnection of proximal and distal nerve stumps.
机标关键词：nerve injuryperipheral nervesquality of life
论文发表日期：2014-01-01
在线出版日期：2025-08-15（本平台首次上网日期，不代表文献的发表时间）
页数：4( 1498-1501 )
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