Digital nerve-grafting for traumatic defects. Use of the lateral

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antebrachial cutaneous nerve. Tenny-JR; Lewis-RC J-Bone-Joint-Surg-Am. 1984 Dec; 66(9): 1375-9 We used segments of the lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve to graft defects in forty-two digital nerves in thirty-five patients. Age was a more important prognostic indicator for functional sensibility than either the length of the nerve graft or the time-interval from injury to grafting. The younger patients did better. A battery of eight tests was used to determine functional sensibility scores. All patients improved and 40 per cent had completely normal sensibility.