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Nerve decompressions have benefited from advances in technology and peripheral nerve surgery. For example, use of the operating microscope (surgery that uses this microscope is now known as microsurgery) was important to the development of the Jannetta procedure for trigeminal neuralgia. [54]
Arnold Lee Dellon (born April 18, 1944) is an American plastic surgeon known for pioneering and developing the modern field of peripheral nerve injury. [1] [2] [3] He is a professor of Plastic Surgery and Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University and the founder of Dellon Institutes for Peripheral Nerve Surgery. [4] [5]
The Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the study of the peripheral nervous system from the perspectives of both neuroscience and clinical neurology. It was established in 1996 and is published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the Peripheral Nerve Society, of which it is the ...
A neurectomy, or nerve resection is a neurosurgical procedure in which a peripheral nerve is cut or removed to alleviate neuropathic pain or permanently disable some function of a nerve. The nerve is not intended to grow back.
Nerve compression syndrome, or compression neuropathy, or nerve entrapment syndrome, is a medical condition caused by chronic, direct pressure on a peripheral nerve. [1] It is known colloquially as a trapped nerve , though this may also refer to nerve root compression (by a herniated disc , for example).
Tendon transfer surgery is necessary when a certain muscle function is lost because of a nerve injury. If a nerve is injured and cannot be repaired, then the nerve no longer sends signals to certain muscles. Those muscles are paralyzed and their muscle function is lost. Tendon transfer surgery can be used to attempt to replace that function.
Surgery can be done in case a peripheral nerve has become cut or otherwise divided. This is called peripheral nerve reconstruction. The injured nerve is identified and exposed so that normal nerve tissue can be examined above and below the level of injury, usually with magnification, using either loupes or an operating microscope. If a large ...
The surgical disorders of the peripheral nerves Sir Herbert John Seddon CMG FRCS (13 July 1903 – 21 December 1977) was an English orthopaedic surgeon. He was Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Oxford , where his work and publications on peripheral nerve injuries gained him an international reputation.