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Muscle Nerve
October 2009
Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, 1300 Jefferson Park Avenue, P.O. Box 800376, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908-0376, USA.
Sural nerve biopsy is a valuable tool for the diagnosis of neuropathic disorders. However, concerns of persisting pain and numbness resulting from traditional whole sural nerve biopsy have led to interfascicular dissection techniques with inconsistent benefits over whole nerve biopsy. In this study we describe a novel technique of atraumatic anterior fascicular sural nerve biopsy designed to preserve calcaneal sensation while maintaining diagnostic benefit, without requiring significant interfascicular dissection.
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