Findings from S. Kumar and co-researchers advance knowledge in nerve injury

Scientists discuss in 'Clinical and user-friendly classification of traumatic digital nerve injuries of hand' new findings in nerve injury. "INTRODUCTION: Surgical findings of traumatic neurapraxia and neurotmesis in digital nerve injuries of hand have significantly different prognosis and surgeons managing such injuries must be able to provide the expected incidence of these injuries along with decision on surgical exploration. There is a paucity of data in the literature defining the incidence of traumatic neurapraxia and neurotemesis in lacerated hand injuries with clinical features of digital nerve injury. We carried out a study in an urban practice to understand this problem on 81...

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