The sural nerve also plays a vital role in diagnosing and treating other nerve disorders. It is the most common donor nerve used for medical biopsies and nerve grafting due to its diameter and length.

Walsh has criticized sural nerve grafting, contending that it encourages people to damage or remove nerves unnecessarily. "I've never cured anybody by removing both nerves.

Sural nerve grafts of resected cavernous nerves were performed using a microsurgical technique. Post-operative treatment (Sildenafil or Alprostadil) ...

Avance Nerve Graft has allowed us to capture the benefits of nerve grafting in select cases undergoing radical prostatectomy while eliminating the potential side effects of using autologous sural ...

The sural nerve, positioned beneath the skin’s surface in the back of your lower leg, plays a critical role in your body’s sensory network. As a component of the peripheral nervous system ...

Bridging Long Nerve Defects: A Review of Microscopic Nerve Grafting Standards and Practices. MedGenMed 3(3), 2001 [formerly published in Medscape Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine eJournal 5(3), 2001].

New nerve fibres then grew along the sural nerve graft into the corpora cavernosa of the penis. All patients tolerated the 2.5-4-hour procedure and were discharged after an overnight hospital stay.

New nerve fibres then grew along the sural nerve graft into the corpora cavernosa of the penis. All patients tolerated the 2.5-4-hour procedure and were discharged after an overnight hospital stay.

The graft nerve is taken from a sensory nerve, usually the sural nerve, that provides sensation to an area of the skin where sensation is not vital. But the success rate of nerve grafts can be hit ...

The nerve graft can be either an autograft, when the graft is taken from the person having the procedure, or an allograft, when the graft is a processed nerve from a deceased donor. Several types of ...

A new procedure for prostate removal might make life without it more worth living. Men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer--more than half a million worldwide in 2000--face an agonizing choice ...