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Surgical correction of severe knee pterygium
Author(s) -
Garsman Gary M.,
Bennett James B.,
Cain Thomas E.
Publication year - 1988
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/micr.1920090407
Subject(s) - medicine , pterygium , sural nerve , surgery , contracture , sciatic nerve , bridge (graph theory) , anatomy
Knee flexion contracture secondary to a severe pterygium is a disabling condition. Full surgical correction has not been possible because of the sciatic nerve and its terminal branches. Our technique to obtain full correction is to divide the nerve near the neuromuscular junction and bridge the defect with multiple sural nerve cable grafts. Microscopic technique is used.