Three Cases of Transient Common Peroneal Nerve Palsy After Surgery in The Supine Position

The authors descrive three patient with postoperative transient common peroneal nerve palsy, who received surgery in the supine position. All three patients were discharged within 3 weeks after surgery without any neurological disorder. We suspected an intraoperative overstretch of the knee joint as the main cause of the peroneal nerve palsy. We have inproved the intraoperative fixing state of the knee joint by putting a sponge pad beneath the thigh instead of the knee joint and by applying a surrounding belt a little loosely on the thigh or the leg but not on the knee joint. Since then we have not seen peroneal nerve palsy after surgery in the supine position.