INTRODUCTION: Traumatic injuries of radial nerve lead to a dysfunction of upper extremities caused by elbow and wrist extension and finger grip inabilities, which depend on injury severity, surgical technique and trauma surgery time span. METHODS: We present results from 18 subjects with late treatment of radial nerve injuries submitted to surgery during the period from 2001 to 2007, with injury time before then 15 months and submitted to neural repair. RESULTS: The average follow up time is 48 month. A satisfactory motor repair was obtained in 90% of cases submitted to surgery. Functional recovery accessed in all cases submitted to surgery, either by epineurolysis, primary epineural repair and one case was obtained functional recovery with a tendon transfer.
Radial nerve; Upper extremity; Tendon transfer
