Direct nerve suture and knee immobilization in 90° flexion as a

J Surg Case Rep · Dec 2012

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Direct nerve suture and knee immobilization in 90° flexion as a technique for treatment of common peroneal, tibial and sural nerve injuries in complex knee trauma.

There are different ways to treat peripheral nerve injuries with concomitant defects in the lower extremity. One option is a direct nerve suture followed by immobilization of the knee in flexion as it is described for gunshot wounds that lead to lesions of the sciatic nerve and its terminal branches as well as isolated nerve lesions. We used this technique to treat a case of multiple nerve injuries of the lower extremity combined with a complex knee trauma including a lesion of both bones and the posterior capsule. To our knowledge, this technique has not yet been described for such a combined injury in literature.

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- Robert Döring, Bernhard Ciritsis, Thomas Giesen, Hans-Peter Simmen, and Pietro Giovanoli.
- Department of Trauma Surgery, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland robert.doering@usz.ch.
- J Surg Case Rep. 2012 Dec 11; 2012 (12).
AbstractThere are different ways to treat peripheral nerve injuries with concomitant defects in the lower extremity. One option is a direct nerve suture followed by immobilization of the knee in flexion as it is described for gunshot wounds that lead to lesions of the sciatic nerve and its terminal branches as well as isolated nerve lesions. We used this technique to treat a case of multiple nerve injuries of the lower extremity combined with a complex knee trauma including a lesion of both bones and the posterior capsule. To our knowledge, this technique has not yet been described for such a combined injury in literature. © The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd.

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