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...

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...

Neural traction may be an important cause of cubital tunnel syndrome, according to researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. To study the etiology of cubital tunnel syndrome (compression of the ulnar nerve at the elbow), 23 upper extremity cadaveric specimens were studied using a combination...

The brain and spinal cord receive and send information through muscles and sensory receptors. The information sent to organs is transmitted through nerves. The nerves travel to the upper and lower extremities and traverse the various joints along their paths. Unfortunately, these nerves can become compressed or entrapped at various...

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SCOI Presents Cubital Tunnel Syndrome

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...

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Because of the anatomic positioning of the ulnar nerve, it is subject to entrapment and injury by a wide variety of causes. It is the second most common entrapment neuropathy in the upper extremity (the first being the median nerve and its branches). Because of its superficial position at the...

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...

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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We propose our surgical experience and the decisional algorithm we use to select the surgical procedure for the ulnar nerve entrapment at the elbow according to defined parameters.
CONCLUSION: We suggest an algorithm for uniformly treat the patients with cubital tunnel syndrome through a clinical and biological point of view. The...