Biodegradable Cuff an Adjunct to Peripheral Nerve Repair: A Study in Dogs.

摘要

This study on repair of peripheral nerves has demonstrated the following: (a) the biodegradable cuff is readily placed with conventional surgical armamentarium; (b) tissue tolerance to the cuff is high; (c) fibrosis around the nerve is less with use of the cuff; (d) exact microscopic nerve alignment is difficult to achieve even with magnification and nerve conductive techniques; (e) no increase in conductivity could be demonstrated utilizing the cuff; (f) the inside cuff diameter to nerve diameter does not appear to be optimally 2to 1utilizing these biodegradable cuffs; (g) the development of better methods of evaluating peripheral nerve responses is needed. (Author)