nerve repair

Indications

• peripheral nerve disease due to trauma, surgery, or disease refractory to medical therapy
• loss of normal neurologic function resulting in
  • anesthesia
  • paresthesia
  • dysesthesia
  • paralysis

Procedure

• perineurial repair involves repairing the individual fascicles & placing sutures through the perineurium
• group funicular repair involves repairing grouped fascicles with sutures placed through the intraneural epineurium, aligning groups of fascicles
• epineurial repair involves aligning the nerve ends & placing sutures through the epineurium only (trigeminal nerve)

More general terms

• maxillofacial surgery
• neurosurgery

More specific terms

• facial nerve repair
• nerve graft repair