THE DELLON INSTITUTES FOR PERIPHERAL NERVE SURGERY®
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.
In order to make his procedures more available to people with peripheral nerve problems, Dr. Dellon has established medical practices nation wide in partnership with qualified physicians from prestigious medical institutions including: Johns Hopkins and Harvard.
A LEE DELLON, CURRICULUM VITAE
A. Lee Dellon, M.D. graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1966 and from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1970. He then completed eight years of additional training, including two years of research at the National Cancer Institute, Surgery Branch, of the National Institutes of Health. He completed a Plastic Surgery Residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and a Hand Surgery Fellowship at the Raymond M. Curtis Hand Center . Dr. Dellon has received the Certificate of Added Qualifications in Hand Surgery and is Board Certified in Plastic Surgery. He is currently a Professor of Plastic Surgery and a Professor of Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Maryland and Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery, Neurosurgery and Anatomy at the University of Arizona.
Doctor Dellon's research interests center on neural regeneration. In the basic research laboratory, his work included models for peripheral nerve compression, neuroma treatment, neural regeneration through absorbable conduits, and diabetic neuropathy. Dr. Dellon's clinical work is focused on computer-linked devices to quantitate sensibility, treatment strategies for pain due to nerve injury, use of bioabsorbable tubes as a substitute for autogenous nerve grafts, facial pain, and treatment of the symptoms of peripheral neuropathy.
Doctor Dellon has won fifteen national research awards, including the Radium Society Award in 1974, the Cleft Palate Award in 1977, and the Emanuel Kaplan Hand Surgery Award in 1985. Educational Foundation Awards from the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery include those for the immunobiology of skin cancer, prediction of recurrence in non-melanoma skin cancer, partial-thickness skin excision for the treatment of benign dyskeratosis, the surgical treatment of the symptoms of diabetic neuropathy, and neurosensory testing, leprosy, and partial joint denervation.
Doctor Dellon is the author of four books, 72 book chapters, and more than 375 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. He is on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery and The Journal of Hand Surgery . He has previously served on the Editorial Boards of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Annals of Plastic Surgery, Microsurgery, Peripheral Nerve Regeneration and Repair, Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery, Journal of Hand Therapy, Journal of Experimental and Clinical Plastic Surgery (Italian Journal of Plastic Surgery) and Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association.
Doctor Dellon is a founding member and past president of the American Society for Peripheral Nerve. He has served as Secretary and Vice-President of the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery. He is the Director of the Dellon Institutes for Peripheral Nerve Surgery® , with Institutes in Baltimore, Maryland, Boston, Massachusetts , Las Vegas, Nevada , and St. Louis, Missouri. Affiliated Peripheral Nerve Institutes are located in Johnston City, Tennessee, New York City, New York, Dallas, Texas and San Francisco, California.
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