Sensory Recovery Outcome after Digital Nerve Repair in Relation to Different Reconstructive Techniques: Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review

Table 2

End-to-end coaptation.

Treatment	Author	Pub. date	Nerves with follow-up	Age (mean)	Age (range)	Follow-up time (mean)	Follow-up time (range)	Timing of repair	S0–S3 in %	S3+ in %	S4 in %	Glickman and Mackinnon [25]
End-to-end coaptation	Larsen	1958	142	—	—	—	1–7 y	All	36	64	0	+
	Weckesser	1961	24	—	7–55 y	—	—	All	24	32	44	+
	Onne	1962	8	—	<14 y	—	4–15 y	Prim.	0	0	100	+
	Onne	1962	14	—	>14 y	—	4–15 y	Prim.	57	43	0	+
Since 1965 surgical microscope
	Buncke	1972	18	—	6–51 y	—	—	All	22	28	50	+
	Poppin	1979	62	—	6–67 y	—	5–15 y	Prim.	26	55	19	+
	Posch	1980	71	—	—	—	2–11 y	Prim.	52	48	0	+
	Young	1981	27	—	3–67 y	—	2–4 y	Prim.	10	57	33	+
	Vahvanen*	1981	18	9.5 y	1–14 y	7.5 y	2–18 y	All	0	23	77
	Sullivan	1985	42	—	20–65 y	2 y	0.5–8.5 y	All	26	52	22
	Berger	1988	129	—	—	2 y	—	Prim.	9	91		+
	Mailänder	1988	113	—	1–80 y	2 y	0.5–5 y	All	31	47	22
	Chiu	1990	12	37 y	19–61 y	1.8 y	0.5–3.7 y	—	0	75	25
	Pereira	1991	29	38 y	13–72 y	2.3 y	0.7–5.3 y	All	21	58	21
	Altissimi**	1991	54	35 y	4–64 y	—	1–7 y	—	26	61	13
	Chow	1993	72	—	>16 y	2 y	2 y	—	10	65	25
	Eisenschenk	1993	204	36 y	16–68 y	7.25 y	1–15.5 y	All	54	36	10
	Vertruyen	1994	65	23 y	<20–60 y	2.7 y	1.2–5.4 y	—	26	48	26
	Elias	1994	83	30 y	14–70 y	—	—	—	6	64	30
	Tadjalli	1995	37	32 y	—	2.9 y	1.3–7.25 y	—	19	32	49
	Wang***	1996	76	—	18–79 y	—	≥1 y	All	16	37	47
	Malizos	1997	25	37 y	19–61 y	2.3 y	1.7–4.3 y	—	8	72	20
	Schenker	2006	5	30 y	17–51 y	1.2 y	0.75–1.5 y	—	0	60	40
	Sommer	2009	53	42 y	15–85 y	4.2 y	1.3–7.3 y	All	18	40	42

Listings of treatment, author, publication date (pub. date), nerves with follow-up, age (mean and range; y: year), follow-up time (mean and range), timing of repair (all: primary and secondary; prim.: primary), sensory recovery (S0–3, S3+, and S4), and Glickman and Mackinnon [25] (+: publication already mentioned in Glickman and Mackinnon [25]); *: children ≤14 y/not 100% conform with the Highet classification/3–5 mm: 14 patients/6–15 mm: 4 patients/16–25 mm: 0 patients/patients with S4 could be less; **: not 100% conform with the Highet classification/≤5 mm: 7 patients/6–10 mm: 20 patients/11–15 mm: 13 patients/>15 mm: 14 patients/patients with S4 could be less; ***: not 100% conform with the Highet classification/≤7 mm: 36 patients/8–15 mm: 28 patients/>15 mm: 12 patients/patients with S4 could be more.