[Surgical treatment of partial injuries of peripheral nerves]

A surgical microscope and microsurgical instruments were used in operations on 37 patients with incomplete injuries to the median, ulnar, sciatic, and peroneal nerves. It is shown that microsurgical techniques make it possible to improve the results of treatment because in some cases only the injured bundles are repaired while the intact bundles are preserved. In some cases the operation cannot be performed even by microsurgery techniques because of coarse changes within the nerve trunk.