Free muscle transfer for challenging and rare upper limb disorders

Free muscle transfer for challenging and rare upper limb disorders

Free innervated muscle transfer (FMT) achieves functional restoration following not only traumatic brachial plexus injury, but also intractable rare upper limb disorders, such Hopkins’ syndrome, myoplasia in arthrogryposis and radition neuropathy. I introduce our current experience of FMT for these disorders. Hopkins syndrome is a rare cause of poliomyelitis-like paralysis affecting one or more...

MICROSURGICA.L TREATMENT OF UPPER ESOPHAGEAL CARCINOMA (FREE JEJUNAL LOOP TRANSFER)

There are unfortunately a relatively large number of cases of esophageal cancer in Iran as well as other countries, and one of the most difficult problems facing surgeons is the reconstruction of the esophagus and restoration of its function after excision of the tumor. From 1978 to 1987,20 patients (16 male, 4 female) ranging in age from 22 to 68 years were surgically treated for squamous...

Work related disorders of the upper limb.

Upper limb muscle volumes in adult subjects.

Muscle force-generating properties are often derived from cadaveric studies of muscle architecture. While the relative sizes of muscles at a single upper limb joint have been established in cadaveric specimens, the relative sizes of muscles across upper limb joints in living subjects remain unclear. We used magnetic resonance imaging to measure the volumes of the 32 upper limb muscles crossing ...

'Improved hand function remains after upper-limb tendon transfer and muscle release in children with hemiplegia'.