between 1371 to 1379, of 10 patients with radial tunnel syndrome, 9 patients were treated by decompression of the posterior interosseous nerve. 8 patients were followed up more than 10 months. one patient improved without surgery. half of the patients suffered from pain and all of them had variable degrees of paralysis in muscles innervated by deep branch of the radial nerve. the syndrome was d...

conclusions complete recovery of the hand and finger extension was achieved in nine months. case presentation a 61 year-old man presented with the chief complaint of inability to extend the wrist and the fingers of the left hand which began suddenly the night before admission, following a three-week history of pain, numbness and tingling sensation of the affected extremity. he had no history of...

1348 CMAJ, September 6, 2011, 183(12) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Isolated radial nerve palsy in the newborn is uncommon. However, pediatricians and primary care physicians need to be aware that it has a good prognosis, particularly if the history and clinical examination suggest a palsy related to intrauterine pressure. In this issue of CMAJ, Alsubhi and colleagues des...

all surgical positions carry some degree of position-related risks. the most common serious positional injuries are peripheral nerve injuries. we present a case of 23 years old man with obturator nerve injury with clinically evident sequelae following a scapulopexy of the right shoulder in prone position. basis on our knowledge, no similar cases have been described in the literature. the purpos...

Peripheral nerve injury requires a long recovery period, and recovery, once attained, usually is incomplete. Inflammatory procedures may inhibit functional recovery after nerve injury and produce cell death in both the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. Since the glycyrrhiza glabra extract has anti-inflammatory effects, it could reduce the severity of injury. The aim of t...

“Saturday night palsy”, also known as “lovers’ paralysis”, is a neuropathy of the radial nerve, caused by extrinsic compression at certain point in its path along humerus, usually level spiral groove. This designation based on fact that this occurs, frequently, after excessive alcohol intake, thus resulting an incorrect position arm during sleep. fourth most common mononeuropathy worldwide, aff...

BACKGROUND We investigated the efficacy of annular ligament reconstruction by suture anchor in the treatment of radial head dislocation (RHD) in children. METHOD A total of 20 RHD children nderwent annular ligament reconstruction surgery using suture anchor. Preoperative and postoperative elbow functions were evaluated according to Broberg and Morrey 100-point scale. Recovery of radial nerve ...

anatomical vascular variations are rare causes of carpal tunnel syndrome. an aberrant medial artery is the most common vascular variation, while an aberrant radial artery causing carpal tunnel syndrome is even more rare, with an incidence ranging less than 3%. this article reports a patient with compression of the median nerve at the carpal tunnel by an aberrant superficial branch of the radial...