Traumatic knee dislocation is a complex ligamentous injury that may be associated with simultaneous vascular and neurological injury.Although orthopaedic surgeons may consider CPN exploration at the time of ligament reconstruction, there is no standardised approach to the management of this complex and debilitating complication.This review focusses on published evidence of the outcomes of commo...

BACKGROUND Peripheral nerve injuries represent a notable source of anesthetic complications and can be debilitating. The objective of this study was to identify associations with peripheral nerve injury in a broad surgical population cared for in the last decade. METHODS At a tertiary care university hospital, the quality assurance, closed claims, and institution-wide billing code databases w...

Reported are a total of 81 microsurgical operations for cranial nerve root decompression comprising of 66 trigeminal, 10 facial, one vestibular, one vagus and three accessory nerve dysfunction syndromes from 1983 to 1990. Almost all cases of trigeminal neuralgia (TNG) secondary to vascular (59 cases) and minute mass (10 cases) compression, and those with hemifacial spasm (HFS) (nine out o...

background major vascular injury during a spinal surgery is a rare but most dreaded complication. case presentation a 39 years old female undergoing microscopic lumbar discectomy suddenly developed severe hypotension on table. the procedure was abandoned and the patient turned supine. it was diagnosed to be a major vessel tear and the patient was taken up for immediate successful vascular repai...

Lower extremity peripheral nerve injuries can be highly morbid to patients and challenging problems for reconstructive surgeons manage. Nerve transfers have recently emerged as a promising technique in the treatment of these injuries. The nerve-transfer paradigm is predicated on use an expendable, unaffected donor axons restore motor or sensory function target end organ. Distal close organ may ...

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2003;16:152–156 Some nerve injuries require repair in order to regain sensory or motor function. Although this article focuses primarily on trigeminal nerve (TN) injuries and repairs, the facts presented may apply to any peripheral nerve repair. The primary indications for nerve repair or grafting are 1) an injury or continuity defect in a nerve, as a result of trauma, patholog...

©2005 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi:10.1302/0301-620X.87B10. 16700 $2.00 J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2005;87-B:1309-19. Peripheral nerve injuries, particularly in the upper limb, may have devastating consequences. The outcome of injury is determined by the amount of cellular damage, and by variables which include the site of the lesion, the degree of disruption of the conne...