[Muscular neurotisation in traumatic abducens paresis (A new method of operative treatment) (author's transl)].

Traumatic abducens pareses occur quite often. The methods of operation known until now often achieved no good functional result. Therefore the authors experimentally tried to reinnervate by means of "musculr neurotisation" in 10 rabbits an extraocular muscle previously denervated. After 6 months the histological examination revealed the presence of newly germinated medullated nerve fibers and motor end plates. This was the proof that eye muscles may be reinnervated. Consequently in 5 patients with traumatic abducens paresis an implantation of the inferior oblique muscle was done. The functional improvement secured by this method of operation which for the first time has been applied on the human eye was good, in some cases even extremely good, depending on the time elapsed between lesion and operation.