TY - JOUR
T1 - Muscle sense, or nonsense?
AU - Dellon, A. L.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - The hypothesis presented is that a muscle, transferred to a new area for purposes of recontouring or soft-tissue coverage, may be used also to provide sensibility. I hypothesize that the muscle's sensory end-organs, the muscle spindles, can be reinnervated by regenerating sensory afferent fibers from an adjacent cutaneous nerve. The muscle spindle's neural impulses, which normally pass to a subconscious level, would instead pass to the postcentral gyrus and reach conscious perception. A mechanism exists, therefore, by adding a sural or calcaneal nerve repair to the motor nerve of a muscle flap, transferred, for example, to the foot, to restore sensibility through microneurovascular transfer of a classic motor end-organ.
AB - The hypothesis presented is that a muscle, transferred to a new area for purposes of recontouring or soft-tissue coverage, may be used also to provide sensibility. I hypothesize that the muscle's sensory end-organs, the muscle spindles, can be reinnervated by regenerating sensory afferent fibers from an adjacent cutaneous nerve. The muscle spindle's neural impulses, which normally pass to a subconscious level, would instead pass to the postcentral gyrus and reach conscious perception. A mechanism exists, therefore, by adding a sural or calcaneal nerve repair to the motor nerve of a muscle flap, transferred, for example, to the foot, to restore sensibility through microneurovascular transfer of a classic motor end-organ.
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U2 - 10.1097/00000637-199105000-00006
DO - 10.1097/00000637-199105000-00006
M3 - Article
C2 - 1952717
AN - SCOPUS:0025793429
VL - 26
SP - 444
EP - 448
JO - Annals of Plastic Surgery
JF - Annals of Plastic Surgery
SN - 0148-7043
IS - 5
ER -