sural nerve

Sural nerve is a frequent location for the biopsy.

This usually is the great auricular nerve or sural nerve.

Laboratory studies, including skin and sural nerve biopsies, failed to show any metabolic disorder.

The sural nerve (short saphenous nerve) is a nerve in the leg.

The sural nerve subserves a purely sensory function, and therefore its removal results in only a relatively trivial deficit.

The sural nerve lies within the field and can be harvested as a vascularized nerve transfer with the flap.

It also supplies the skin of the lateral side of the foot and ankle, and communicates with the sural nerve.

The sural nerve is joined by fibres from the common fibular nerve and runs down the calf to supply the lateral side of the foot.

Sural nerve (purple).

Dr. Patten said he favored extensive hospital testing, including biopsies of the bicep muscle and the sural nerve, which runs through the ankle.

In most cases, microneurographic readings use median, ulnar, radial, peronial, tibial, femoral or sural nerves.

Mostly the great auricular nerve or sural nerve is used as a graft between the two facial nerve stumps.

The sural communicating branch of common fibular nerve is a nerve which gives rise to the sural nerve.

In such cases, presence of clinical characteristics suggestive of CIDP are critical, justifying full investigations, including sural nerve biopsy.

This pathology test is becoming available in select labs as well as many universities; it replaces the traditional sural nerve biopsy test as less invasive.

Frequently some of the lateral branches of the superficial peroneal are absent, and their places are then taken by branches of the sural nerve.

- The lateral dorsal cutaneous nerve from the sural nerve turns into a dorsal digital nerve and supplies the lateral side of the fifth toe.

The lateral calcaneal branches of sural nerve are cutaneous nerves of the foot providing sensory innervation to the most lateral aspect of skin of the heel.

Likewise, the sural nerve provides sensory innervation to the skin on the lateral side of the foot as well as the skin on the posterior aspect of the lower leg.

In the one stage procedure a free muscle transplant with a latissimus dorsi graft or a nerve graft (using the sural nerve or saphenous nerve) can be used.

Dorsal digital nerves of foot are branches of the intermediate dorsal cutaneous nerve, medial dorsal cutaneous nerve, sural nerve and deep fibular nerve.

The Achilles tendon receives its blood supply from its musculotendinous junction with the triceps surae and its innervation from the sural nerve and to a lesser degree from the tibial nerve.

In the popliteal fossa the nerve gives off branches to gastrocnemius, popliteus, soleus and plantaris muscles, an articular branch to the knee joint, and a cutaneous branch that will become the sural nerve.

The NFR is measured by using an electromyogram to monitor the muscle activity in the upper leg(biceps femoris) while applying increasing electrical stimulation to the lower leg (sural nerve) on the same side of the body.

During a cross facial nerve graft procedure one or more branches of the non-paralysed facial nerve are divided and connected to one or more sural nerve grafts which are tunnelled to the affected side of the face.