Various methods were used in an attempt to evaluate the degree of recovery of sensory function in divided and sutured median and ulnar nerves. The answer given by discrimination tests was that the results in all cases, except children, were uniformly bad. Timed functional tests, however, showed a spread of results across the cases which allowed statistical analysis of the major factors contributing to the outcome.
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