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Nerve Repair

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Meticulous, tension- free repair is critical to successful nerve repair. The precision of gesture associated with the robotic arms makes a surgical robot ideal for delicate, microneural repair. In this chapter, examples of clinical applications of nerve repair with a surgical robot are presented. Further to this, the perspectives with surgical robots are drawn, the so-called “supermicrosurgery,” with the aim to create a perfect match of motor and sensory fascicles or repairing extremely tiny and complex neural structures with great precision.

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  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Northwest Hospital, 10 Crossroads Drive, Suite 210, Owings Mills, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Stacey H. Berner M.D.

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Correspondence to Stacey H. Berner M.D. .

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  1. Centre de Chirurgie, Orthopédique et de la Main (CCOM), Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, av. Achille Baumann 10, Illkirch CX, 67403, France

    Philippe A. Liverneaux

  2. , Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Northwest Hospita, Crossroads Drive 10, Owings Mills, Baltimore, 21117, Maryland, USA

    Stacey H. Berner

  3. , Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, Loyola University, Chicago, S. First Avenue 2160, Maywood, 60153, Illinois, USA

    Michael S. Bednar

  4. University of Florida, Director, Robotic Surgery, Winter Haven Hospital &, 200 Avenue F. N.E., Winter Haven, 33881, Florida, USA

    Sijo J. Parekattil

  5. São Paolo Hand Center, Rua Maestro Cardim 987, Sao Paolo, 01323-001, Brazil

    Gustavo Mantovani Ruggiero

  6. , Department of Plastic Surgery, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Pressler St 1400, Houston, 77030, Texas, USA

    Jesse C. Selber

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Berner, S.H. (2013). Nerve Repair. In: Liverneaux, P., Berner, S., Bednar, M., Parekattil, S., Mantovani Ruggiero, G., Selber, J. (eds) Telemicrosurgery. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-8178-0391-3_14

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