Surgery of leprous neuritis (a 16 mm colour-sound film--35 minutes
Bourrel, P.; Giraudeau, P.
Medecine Tropicale Revue du Corps de Sante Colonial 40(4): 451-453
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-682X PMID: 7421491 Document Number: 162248
When medical treatment is not sufficient, surgery may still improve leprous neuritis by:--opening of osteo-fibrous tunnels where is an external compression fixing the level of physiological blockade: the elbow for the cubital nerve, the wrist for the median nerve, the peroneal neck for the peroneal nerve, the instep for the tibial nerve;--opening the thickened and consequently inextensible epineurium, inducing a release of the compression acting upon the nervous bundles and permitting their recovery if they are not yet destroyed. The film describes the various techniques immediately effective in hyperalgic neuritis and giving valuable recoveries in forms showing already a functional impairment.