Nerve Transfer
| Medical Definition: |
Surgical reinnervation of a denervated peripheral target using a healthy donor nerve and/or its proximal stump. The direct connection is usually made to a healthy postlesional distal portion of a non-functioning nerve or implanted directly into denervated muscle or insensitive skin. Nerve sprouts will grow from the transferred nerve into the denervated elements and establish contact between them and the neurons that formerly controlled another area. |
| Guide Notes: |
do not use /util except by MeSH definition; coord IM with specific nerve /surg (IM or NIM) |
| Also Called: |
Nerve Crossover |
| Previously Indexed: |
specific nerve/surgery (1970-1990),specific nerve/transplantation (1972-1990) |
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