Nerve Transfer
"Nerve Transfer" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D016067
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E04.525.550
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| Concept/Terms |
Nerve Transfer- Nerve Transfer
- Nerve Transfers
- Transfer, Nerve
- Transfers, Nerve
- Neurotization
- Neurotizations
Nerve Crossover- Nerve Crossover
- Crossover, Nerve
- Crossovers, Nerve
- Nerve Crossovers
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