BACKGROUND The superficial peroneal nerve is a branch of common peroneal nerve. There are reports about the variant course and distribution of this nerve. The sural nerve arises from the tibial nerve in the popliteal fossa. The variations of the above nerves described here are unique and provide significant information to surgeons dissecting lower limb. CASE PRESENTATION The present case is a...

Using surface electrodes, sensory nerve action potentials (SAP) have been recorded in the proximal segment (mid-calf to lateral malleolus) and the distal segment (lateral malleolus to toe 5) of the sural nerve and in the median nerve in 79 control subjects. The values obtained for the distal segment of the sural nerve varied widely and in seven apparently normal subjects no SAP could be disting...

The pattern of an abnormal median-normal sural (AMNS) sensory response is associated with acute and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (AIDP and CIDP) and considered unusual in other types of neuropathy, although specificity and sensitivity of this pattern have not been evaluated. We compared sensory responses (patterns and absolute values) in patients with AIDP, CIDP, di...

Variations of the distally based sural artery flap have been used in the literature with varying success rates. This article stresses the axiality of this flap based on the sural nerve and the short saphenous vein. Forty distally based sural artery flaps were used for a variety of defects in the distal leg. In the proximal leg, the groove between the medial and lateral heads of the gastrocnemiu...

Sural nerve presents great topographic variability and it is responsible for sensory innervation of the posterolateral side of the distal third of the leg and lateral aspect of the foot. Entrapment of the nerve could be caused by compression due to fascial thickening, while the symptomatology includes sensory alterations and deficits at the nerve distribution area. We report a cadaveric case of...

results: we performed reverse sural flaps in eight gunshot patients, to cover the defects of the lower leg and foot. surgical site infection observed in one patient (12.5%) was treated successfully with antibiotic therapy. the reverse sural flap provided a satisfactory coverage for gunshot defects in all the patients. objectives: the purpose of this prospective case series study was explore the...

objective(s): predegeneration is a standard technique to obtain mitotically activated and enriched cultures of schwann cells (scs). this study, for the first time, evaluated the impact of various duration of predegeneration on cell yield and enrichment of scs from dog peripheral nerve. materials and methods: dog sural nerves were subjected to 5, 10, 15 day-long in vitro predegeneration. the tot...

Background Sural nerve biopsies are often performed in order to detect the underlying disease in patients suffering from unclear polyneuropathic symptoms. In transthyretin familial amyloid-polyneuropathy (TTR-FAP) the diagnostic value of invasive sural nerve biopsies is controversially discussed as it often lacks to detect amyloid deposits [Simmons et al, J Neurol Sci 1993]. As we recently repo...