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Sensory abnormalities after the seventh cervical nerve root transfer
Author(s) -
Sungpet Adisak,
Suphachatwong Chanyut,
Kawinwonggowit Viroj
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
microsurgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.031
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1098-2752
pISSN - 0738-1085
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1098-2752(1999)19:6<287::aid-micr6>3.0.co;2-4
Subject(s) - medicine , little finger , index finger , thumb , middle finger , ring finger , sensory system , forearm , brachial plexus , sensation , surgery , cervical nerve , avulsion , nerve root , sensory nerve , radial nerve , anatomy , psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience , biology , gene , cognitive psychology
Twenty‐four patients with root avulsion of brachial plexus were treated with the contralateral C7 root transfer. The area of sensory abnormalities was found on the thumb in 20 cases (83.33%), index finger in 14 cases (58.33%), middle finger in 8 cases (33.33%), ring finger in 3 cases (12.5%), little finger in 11 cases (45.83%), on the radial side of forearm in 9 cases (37.5%), thenar area in 12 cases (50%), and hypothenar area in 8 cases (33.33%). No patient had normal sensation after the seventh cervical root transfer. Sensory abnormalities disappeared within 3 months in all except one patient, who still had sensory abnormalities on the tip of index finger for more than 20 months after the operation. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. MICROSURGERY 19:287–288 1999