Surgeon's foot: a report of sural nerve palsy

Neurosurgery. 1992 Jun;30(6):927-30. doi: 10.1227/00006123-199206000-00020.

Abstract

Although compression neuropathies are encountered frequently in neurosurgical practice, involvement of the sural nerve is described rarely. We report a case of bilateral compression neuropathy of the sural nerve with an unusual mechanism of injury. The case is discussed, and the pertinent literature is reviewed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Foot / innervation
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Nerve Compression Syndromes / physiopathology*
  • Neurologic Examination
  • Neurosurgery*
  • Occupational Diseases / physiopathology*
  • Sural Nerve / physiopathology*
  • Synaptic Transmission / physiology*
  • Weight-Bearing / physiology*