Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Surgical Procedures, Operative > Neurosurgical Procedures > Nerve Transfer

Preferred term

Nerve Transfer  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Related concepts

Entry terms

  • Neurotization
  • Neurotizations

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 91

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016067

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 6/6/90, last modified 6/20/97