Basil Kilvington unknown pioneer of peripheral nerve repair

Abstract

In the early years of the present century, a group of experiments assessing the results of the surgical repair of peripheral nerves and spinal roots was performed by Basil Kilvington. The outcome of the experiments was assessed using both electrophysiological and morphological techniques. Much of Kilvington's work remained unrecognized and was thus repeated at a later date. Kilvington's role in the early history of the surgical repair of nerves appears to have been forgotten and his substantial and prophetic discoveries deserve better recognition.