Peripheral Nerve

Peripheral Nerve Repair: Autologous nerve graft

  • Accepted in the 1970s and remains the gold standard
  • Commonly harvested from:
    • Sural nerve in the leg or
    • Medial cutaneous nerve in the forearm
  • Provides a guidance channel to the regrowing axons as it contains a basal lamina scaffold and endogenous Schwann cells

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