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ArticleJournal of orthopaedic surgery and research2020

Donor nerve graft assessment for covering thumb nerve defects: a cadaveric study.

Hamid Namazi, Ahmad Sobhani, Saeed Gholamzadeh, Amirreza Dehghanian, Fatemeh Dehghani Nazhvani

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Article in Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Hamid NamaziBone and Joint Diseases Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Ahmad SobhaniBone and Joint Diseases Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Saeed GholamzadehLegal Medicine Research Center, Legal Medicine Organization, Tehran, Iran.
Amirreza DehghanianTrauma Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Fatemeh Dehghani NazhvaniBone and Joint Diseases Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. f.dehghani135n@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0498-7872
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences · IRIranian Legal Medicine Organization · IR

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Shiraz University of Medical Sciences 1396-01-01-15682
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Abstract

backgroundEven though several studies reported donor autologous nerve grafts for digital nerve defects, there is no report in the literature regarding acceptable graft for thumb nerves. The purpose of this study is to provide guidelines for autologous nerve graft selection by detecting similarities between thumb nerve zones and donor nerve with regard to the number of fascicles and cross-sectional area. MATERIALS AND

methodsFive cadavers were used in this study. An anatomical zoning system was defined for thumb nerves (zones 1, 2, 3). Sural nerve (SN), medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve (MABCN), lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve (LABCN), posterior interosseous nerve (PIN), and anterior interosseous nerve (AIN) were selected as donor nerve grafts. The number of fascicles and surface area (mm

resultsThe mean of the fascicle number in zone 1, zone 2, zone 3, AIN, PIN, LABCN, MABCN, and SN were 3.8, 4.7, 6.1, 2.2, 1.8, 4.5, 3.1, and 6.4, respectively. The mean of the surface area in zone 1, zone 2, zone 3, AIN, PIN, LABCN, MABCN, and SN were 2.19, 6.26, 4.04, 1.58, 0.71, 5.00, 3.01, and 8.06, respectively.

conclusionsLABCN is the best choice for all zones that has fascicular matching with all three zones of thumb nerves and caliber matching with zones 2 and 3. In zone 1, the best nerve graft is MABCN which has both suitable caliber and fascicle count.

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AgedAllograftsCadaverHumansMaleNeurosurgical ProceduresPeripheral Nerve InjuriesPeripheral NervesThumbAnatomical zoning systemDonor nervesNerve allograftsPeripheral nerve reconstructionThumb nerve defect

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