(1) After tibial nerves of the rabbits were cut and inosculated , the inosculated areas were treated with local injection of chitosan and dehydrocortisol.(2) The LPA was too short for the anastomosis to the main artery, so we inosculated the injured LPA to the recipient inferior epigastric artery.(3) For several days also direct compression upon the spot of inosculation was combined with this pressure at the cardiac side.(4) All grafts appeared healthy and inosculation was noted for 80-100% of the graft edges on days 7 and 9.
