News on PNE Surgery
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 7:01 pm
Hello to you All!
I have received permission from Dr. Hibner to post his advancement in techniques to receive deeper and better view and to be able to address deeper seated nerve compressions.
Quote from Dr. Hibner's email:
"To answer your question about seeing the Alckck's canal (an please feel free to share it). We have recently started doing two things. One thing that we do is we cut the sacrotuberous ligament at the slightly different angle. It significantly helps with exposure and with repair later. We also use different kind of retractors. Third. Hang is that we use a dental mirror under a microscope and this provides very good view at the angle which is necessary to see all the way to the bottom. Fourth we sometimes use Fogarty catheter which is routinely used on venous thrombosis. It is a thin semi-rigid catheter with balloon at the end. In cases we cannot see distal Alcock's well we advance it into the canal and inflate the balloon. This distends Alcock's canal very nicely. I hope this helps. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do for you. I very strongly believe that repeat surgery is a valid option. I have reoperated on many patients. Two of my own and many patients from Ansell, Filler, Bautrand and Robert. Many of those patients are doing well after the re-do surgery. I am a great believer in redo procedures."
I am glad to know that constant progress is being made to get better results from this crazy condition. Dr. Hibner is aalways trying to improve, learn, and help more effectively.
spirit42
I have received permission from Dr. Hibner to post his advancement in techniques to receive deeper and better view and to be able to address deeper seated nerve compressions.
Quote from Dr. Hibner's email:
"To answer your question about seeing the Alckck's canal (an please feel free to share it). We have recently started doing two things. One thing that we do is we cut the sacrotuberous ligament at the slightly different angle. It significantly helps with exposure and with repair later. We also use different kind of retractors. Third. Hang is that we use a dental mirror under a microscope and this provides very good view at the angle which is necessary to see all the way to the bottom. Fourth we sometimes use Fogarty catheter which is routinely used on venous thrombosis. It is a thin semi-rigid catheter with balloon at the end. In cases we cannot see distal Alcock's well we advance it into the canal and inflate the balloon. This distends Alcock's canal very nicely. I hope this helps. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do for you. I very strongly believe that repeat surgery is a valid option. I have reoperated on many patients. Two of my own and many patients from Ansell, Filler, Bautrand and Robert. Many of those patients are doing well after the re-do surgery. I am a great believer in redo procedures."
I am glad to know that constant progress is being made to get better results from this crazy condition. Dr. Hibner is aalways trying to improve, learn, and help more effectively.
spirit42