plants available. For this reason we have found that Teflon provides the most effective decompression because of its pliability. If compression by the implant is the proposed cause of recurrence, why is the recurrence rate so low? Drs. Ryu and Yamamoto propose an interesting alternative technique for performing microvascular decompression by coapting the vascular loop to the dura with the use o...

Closed loop neuromodulation, where the stimulation is controlled autonomously based on physiological events, has been more effective than open loop techniques. In the few existing closed loop implementations which have a feedback, indirect non-neurophysiological biomarkers have been typically used (e.g. heart rate, stomach distension). Although these biomarkers enable automatic initiation of ne...

background: considering the common origin of skin and peripheral nervous system, a tube of dermal layer of skin hypothetically can be an ideal conduit for nerve reconstruction. an experimental study performed to evaluate the nerve regeneration of efficacy into a dermal tube. methods: sixty male wistar rats were used. a 10 mm gap was produced in right sciatic nerves. in group a the autogenous ne...

Symptomatic Neural Loop of the Distal Ulnar Nerve Hyun Il Lee, M.D.*, Min Jong Park, M.D., Gi Jun Lee, M.D., and Sung Han Ha, M.D. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, MS Jaegeon Hospital, Daegu, *Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Gangneung Asan Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Gangneung, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School ...

Comment. Although perineurial cell proliferation may be suspected histologically with routine hematoxylineosin staining, a definite identification needs the demonstration of perineurial cell features using immunohistochemical studies. The morphologic criteria include spindle cells with curved or wavy thin nuclei and thin, elongated cytoplasmic processes, arranged in lamellae, and a storiform gr...

OBJECTIVES Injury of the inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) is a serious intraoperative complication that may occur during routine surgical procedures, such as dental implant placement or extraction of impacted teeth. Thus, the purpose of this study was to analyze the trajectory of the mandibular canal (MC), the location of the mental foramen (MF) and the presence and extension of an anterior loop o...

OBJECTIVE The main objective of this study was to describe Martin-Gruber anastomosis anatomically and to recognize its clinical repercussions. METHOD 100 forearms of 50 adult cadavers were dissected in an anatomy laboratory. The dissection was performed by means of a midline incision along the entire forearm and the lower third of the upper arm. Two flaps including skin and subcutaneous tissu...

A nerve clamp electrode was developed to indirectly stimulate skeletal muscle innervated by α motor neurons as an alternative to conventional electrodes. The stimulating electrode device consists of a spring coil-activated nerve clamp mounted inside a 1-mL syringe barrel. Supramaximal pulses were generated by a Grass stimulator and delivered to the nerve segment via the nerve clamp electrode. T...