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How good is surgical perpherial nerve reattachment after a nerve been severed to retore function and feeling?
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Hit and miss: May work well, but nerve has to regrow and hopefully re-innervate correctly within the proper sequence and location. This process proceeds slowly, at 0.1 mm daily, speed of finger nail growth. Sometimes, focal scarring at site of attachment, a neuroma, can compromise outcome.
Answered 7/14/2014
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