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ArticleCureus2022

Autologous Muscle-Derived Nerve Wrap for Prevention of Symptomatic Microneuromas in Primary Nerve Repair.

William J Bruce, Amanda L Brown, Michael R Romanelli, Brian A Mailey

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Article in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

William J BruceDepartment of Surgery, Institute for Plastic Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, USA.
Amanda L BrownDepartment of Surgery, Institute for Plastic Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, USA.
Michael R RomanelliDepartment of Surgery, Institute for Plastic Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, USA.
Brian A MaileyDepartment of Surgery, Institute for Plastic Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, USA.
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regeneration of peripheral nerves after repair is incomplete. Painful microneuromas may form at the site of an appropriately performed primary microsurgical nerve repair leading to a persistent Tinel's sign and hypersensitivity in that location. Here, we describe an autologous option using a free muscle-derived nerve wrap with the intent to capture axonal escape at the site of primary nerve coaptation. We demonstrate this technique on a patient undergoing primary nerve repair of a laceration to the superficial branch of the radial nerve using extensor digitorum communis muscle as a donor graft. This has become our preferred technique over commercially available nerve wraps as the muscle wrap is autologous, not limited by cost, and has the potential to limit microneuroma formation at the coaptation site.

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microneuromamuscle wrapnerve repairnerve wrapneuromaperipheral nerveregenerative peripheral nerve interface

Identifiers

PMID35371726
PMCPMC8960576
OpenAlexW4213391014

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