A Lee. Dellon, MD, PhD Retired | Pioneer in Peripheral Nerve Surgery
THE DELLON INSTITUTES FOR PERIPHERAL NERVE SURGERY®
I specialize in correcting difficult peripheral nerve problems. The most common peripheral nerve problem in the United States of America is neuropathy due to diabetes, chemotherapy, heavy metal poisoning, and unknown causes. This neuropathy causes ulceration and amputations through the loss of sensation, as well as intense pain. Decompression of nerves in the leg, ankle, and foot can relieve this problem in up to 80% of patients who also have a nerve entrapment at these anatomic locations. These procedures were pioneered at the Dellon Institutes. Other causes of peripheral nerve pain are related to joint problems, such as persistent pain after total knee replacement, or shoulder or ankle pain after reconstructive musculoskeletal surgeries. Partial joint denervated, pioneered at the Dellon Institutes, can relieve this pain in up to 90% of patients.
Other causes of pain due to peripheral nerve injury can also be helped by our pioneering techniques, such as groin pain after hernia repair, Caesarian section, or abdominoplasty. Pain after breast reconstruction, either in the thorax or abdominal wall, can be helped by relocating the injured nerves. Facial paralysis can be reconstructed, as can certain weakened areas of the hands and foot, such as drop foot, by tendon transfers. Neurosis can correct winging of the scapula. Often the pain said to be due to Reflex Symptathetic Dystrophy (RSD, or now termed CRPS) is found to be due to injured nerves from joints or nerve compression, each of which may still be helped by our techniques.
The Dellon Institutes for Peripheral Nerve Surgery® owe their name to A. Lee Dellon, M.D., PhD., an accomplished Plastic Surgeon as well as a Professor of Plastic Surgery and Neurosurgery at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. He has received a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Hand Surgery and is Board Certified in Plastic Surgery. He received a PhD from the University of Utrecht in Holland in 2007 for his extensive basic science and clinical work in diabetic neuropathy.
Dr. Dellon specializes in the treatment of diabetic neuropathy as well as other painful peripheral nerve disorders and has trained many surgeons worldwide in the procedures he has developed to relieve pain.