Lateral femoral cutaneous neuropathy and its surgical treatment: A report of 167 cases

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 659-663

  Benezis, Igor ^a   Boutaud, Benoit ^a   Leclerc, Jerome ^a   Fabre, Thierry ^a   Durandeau, Alain ^a  

^a HÔPITAL PELLEGRIN   (France)

Author keywords

Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve; Meralgia paresthetica; Nerve entrapment; Nerve release; Nerve transection

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; ILIAC CREST; LATERAL FEMORAL CUTANEOUS NEUROPATHY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROPATHY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THIGH; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FEMORAL NEUROPATHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35448937268     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20868     Document Type: Article

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