Epineural Tube Repair

Peripheral nerve injury is a common condition in both civil and military circumstances, which results on morbidities that are usually both permanent and significant. Typical symptoms are sensory and motor function defects that could result in complete paralysis of an affected limb or development of intractable neuropathic pain. Approximately 100,000 patients undergo peripheral nerve surgery in the United States and Europe annually. While direct end-to-end nerve repair yields the best outcomes, other means of nerve repair have to be employed if tension-free or minimal tension coaptation of nerve stumps cannot be achieved.