Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics Main Menu Home Page Repair of median and ulnar nerves.
Primary suture is best.
We reviewed, at two to seven years, the results of repair of 108 median and ulnar nerves after clean transection injury between the elbow and wrist in 95 patients ranging in age from 15 to 55 years. Thirteen of 60 secondary repairs or grafts failed, but no primary repair failed completely. There were few exnsverse carpal ligament 2 to 6 mm proximal to the distal edge.