Early Repair of Neural Wounds With Penicillin Therapy

The Surgery of Peripheral Nerve Injury

“…75 Learmonth and Wallace63 have shown how useful in this respect is a close collaboration between plastic and peripheral nerve units. Not only can open wounds be closed by plastic methods, but dense scars can be replaced by whole skin and fat, so that scarring after repair of a nerve may be minimal, and strangulation of the sutured nerve unlikely.…”