End-to-side repair of thenar motor branch of median nerve to the ulnar nerve after excision of the median nerve neurofibroma


ERTEM K., Karakoc Y.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY AND TRAUMATOLOGY, vol.19, no.5, pp.345-347, 2009 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

Abstract

A 13-year-old male patient suffering for the past 5 years with a gradually swelling and occasionally painful volar side of right forearm, presented to our clinic without any trauma. An end-to-side nerve repair performed between the ulnar nerve and thenar motor branch, and second common digital nerve to the digital nerve of the first finger for mend the sensorial, digital, and motor impairments related to the median nerve associated plexiform neurofibroma that occured after the excision of the tumor.