Dear Editor, Multiple symmetric lipomatosis (MSL), also called Madelung’s disease, is a rare disease characterized by the growth of nonencapsulated masses of adipose tissue.1 The disease causes not only cosmetic issues but also various clinical problems depending on the location and extent of the lesion,2 with neuromuscular manifestations such as polyneuropathy, myopathy, and ataxia having been...

Lipomas are benign soft tissue neoplasms that occur commonly in subcutaneous tissue. In rare instances they can occur in deeper planes. When occurring in the proximal forearm they can compress the posterior interosseous branch of the radial nerve resulting in an insidious onset of weakness of digital extensor muscles. A case of posterior interosseous nerve palsy from lipoma in a 58-year-old man...

Unexplained paralysis of the muscles supplied by the anterior interosseous nerve of the forearm was recorded by Parsonage and Turner (1948), Kiloh and Nevin (1952) and Thomas (1962). In none of the patients they described was the affected nerve explored. Spontaneous recovery occurred in all, but it was long delayed and incomplete. We record here a case of “ isolated neuritis ofthe anterior inte...

The anterior interosseous nerve can become entrapped within the antecubital fossa at its origin from the median nerve, which results in the so-called Kiloh-Nevin syndrome. In this report, the authors describe an atypical anterior interosseous nerve syndrome due to neurovascular relationships with the anterior interosseous artery. The patient complained of unbearable analgesic-resistant pain wit...

Decomposition-enhanced spike-triggered averaging (DE-STA) has been developed as a method for obtaining a motor unit number estimate (MUNE). We describe the method and report control data for the first dorsal interosseous/adductor pollicis and thenar muscles and reliability in the thenar muscles. Seventeen subjects (ages 20-50 years) took part in the study. The maximum M potential was elicited w...