J Korean Orthop Assoc.  1990 Apr;25(2):347-352. 10.4055/jkoa.1990.25.2.347.

Clinical analysis of Peripheral Nerve Injury

• Chung MS
• Won CH
• Yoon KS
• Yeo BG
• Chung SS

• KMID: 2445470
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4055/jkoa.1990.25.2.347

Abstract

Peripheral nerve injury occurs mostly in company with tendon and muscle injuries, fractures, or dislocations. Because of the disabilities and socioeconomic loss caused by such injuries, much attention must be paid to the initial treatment, and later to the reconstruction and rehabilitation. At department of Orthopedic Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, 336 patients of nerve lesion were treated from Jan, 1980 to Dec, 1988. Among them 128 patients were nerve compression syndrome (carpal tunnel 52 patients, cubital tunnel 40 patients, thoracic outlet 16 patients, others 20 patients), and 50 patients were brachial plexus injury, and 168 cases were peripheral nerve injury. 50 patients of the peripheral nerve injury were treated with reconstruction and 118 patients were treatred with neurorrhaphy, nerve graft, and neurolysis. Of the 118 patients, 94 patients were followed up for more than one year, and the results of neurorrhaphy, nerve graft and neurolysis were analyzed. In 46 patients (73.0%) of the patients treated with neurorrhaphy, 7 patients (58.3%) with nerve graft, and 15 patients (78.9%) with neurolysis, good or excellent results were obtained.

Keyword

Peripheral nerve injury; Neurorrhaphy; Graft; Neurolysis

MeSH Terms

Brachial Plexus
Dislocations
Humans
Nerve Compression Syndromes
Orthopedics
Peripheral Nerve Injuries*
Peripheral Nerves*
Rehabilitation
Seoul
Tendons
Transplants