Giant lipoma: an unusual cause of carpal tunnel syndrome
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Giant lipoma: an unusual cause of carpal tunnel syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome, in its idiopathic form, is an extremely common entrapment neuropathy in the clinical practice however secondary compressive causes are rare. Among secondary causes, tumors are even rarer. Although lipomas are the most common soft tissue tumor in the body, <5% of the benign tumors of the hand are lipomas. A 48-year old manual laborer man presented to us with a two-year hi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pan African Medical Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1937-8688
DOI: 10.4314/pamj.v9i1.71205