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Outcome studies of revision surgical treatment for recurrent or persistent neuropathy of the ulnar nerve at the elbow are relatively rare and none involves patient self-assessment. In this study of 40 patients (41 elbows), a clear discrepancy is shown between clinical assessment and the patient's own view. From clinical assessment,...

Madison Army Medical Center Referral Guidelines. Carpal and Cubital Tunnel (Neuropathic Entrapment) Syndromes Pain, loss of strength or sensory changes (paresthesias) in the distribution of the median or ulnar nerves not associated with neck pain.

With prolonged cellular telephone use, people may note the onset of aching, burning, numbness, or tingling in the ulnar forearm and hand. This constellation of symptoms, termed “cell phone elbow” by the lay press, is known medically as cubital tunnel syndrome
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Complete anaesthesia in the cutaneous distribution of the ulnar nerve following submuscular anterior transposition of the ulnar nerve has not been previously reported. We postulate vascular insult as the etiology of this condition and suggest there may be clinical importance to preserving the ulnar nerve blood supply during submuscular anterior...

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We operated on 16 patients for ulnar neuropathy associated with osteoarthritis of the elbow. They were all male manual workers, with an average age of 51 years at the time of surgery. The severity of the symptoms was McGowan grade 1 in five patients, grade 2 in nine and grade...

Feindel and Stratford (1958) were the first to use the term cubital tunnel. They emphasized that the ulnar nerve is compressed at the elbow because of anatomic peculiarities to that region. In 1898, Curtis performed the first published case of management for ulnar nerve neuropathy at the elbow, which consisted...

Synonym: ulnar neuritis
The ulnar nerve arises from the medial brachial plexus and innervates the muscles of both the forearm and parts of the hand. It also carries sensory neurones supplying the skin of the back of the forearm, the palm and the fourth and little fingers. Most damage to the...

CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that early surgical management combined with gentle physical therapy postoperatively is a feasible modality for treating patients with post-traumatic HO about the elbow presenting as limited range of motion and associated ulnar nerve compression syndrome.
Early surgical management for heterotopic ossification about the elbow presenting as limited...

We carried out a prospective randomised study comparing medial epicondylectomy with anterior transposition for the treatment of ulnar neuropathy at the elbow. The mean follow-up period was 4.5 years and we assessed the patients neurologically and orthopaedically. Neither procedure appeared to have a significant effect on elbow function. Our study...

CONCLUSIONS: Factors inducing cubital tunnel syndrome include both common factors that have been reported and rare factors, involving the venous plexus, thick veins, and cysts. Tests of motor conduction velocity at different sites along the ulnar nerve should be helpful in diagnosis cubital tunnel syndrome, especially MCV tests indicating decreased...

A Pedicled Adipofascial Flap as a Sling for Anterior Subcutaneous Transposition of the Ulnar Nerve
4 minute technique video By: Melvin Rosenwasser

The outcomes of 81 operations were assessed for the treatment of ulnar nerve entrapment at the elbow performed on 55 males (bilateral operations in one) and 25 females
Simple ulnar nerve decompression or anterior transposition of the ulnar nerve (subcutaneous or intramuscular) was performed with or without the operating microscope. Nine...

Peripheral nervous system involvement in systemic sclerosis (SSc) is rare, and is usually limited to carpal tunnel syndrome. Ulnar nerve involvement secondary to compression of Guyon's canal has been reported in two patients. Herein, we describe for the first time an SSc patient who developed bilateral ulnar nerve sensorimotor compression...

We examined prospectively 37 acromegalic patients with no history of polyneuropathy, acute trauma at the elbow, no diabetes or hypothyroidism with clinical examination, nerve conduction studies (NCS), and high-resolution ultrasound (US).
In 8 of 37 patients, a diagnosis of UCT was made at the beginning of the study reflecting a...