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Study of the Vascular Morphology of the lower limb nerves used as grafts
Author(s) -
Omaña Rodrigo Enrique Elizondo,
Lopez Santos Guzman,
Cruz Juan Jose Bazaldua,
GArza Alejandro Quiroga
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.26.1_supplement.722.15
Subject(s) - vascularity , saphenous nerve , peroneal artery , sural nerve , medicine , anatomy , superficial peroneal nerve , surgery , ankle
A macroscopic and microscopic analysis of the vascularity of the main lower limb nerves used as vascularized nervous grafts, was carried out. It was followed out a descriptive, transversal and non‐comparative study to analyse the saphenous, the sural, the deep peroneal and the superficial peroneal nerves vascularity. This study was performed in two stages: 1) an in situ vascularity study and 2) a morphometric study. By the in situ study, it was demonstrated the following: The total length of the lower limb nerves used as graft, was in a decrescent order: sural nerve (μ= 29.26 cm, ±4.05 cm), superficial peroneal nerve (μ=28.61 cm, ±3.97 cm), deep peroneal nerve (μ=26.64 cm, ±5.21 cm) and saphenous nerve (μ=25.12 cm, ±4.42 cm). The morphometric study demonstrated that the dominant artery with the major diameter belongs to the saphenous nerve, with a diameter of 1.13 mm; then we have the superficial peroneal nerve with a 1.01 mm diameter, followed by the deep peroneal nerve with 0.91 mm, and finally the sural nerve with the smallest diameter, 0.85 mm. The saphenous nerve has the most appropriated morphological characteristics to be used as a vascularized graft.