Fingers That Won't Extend Medscape

Description: A 48-year-old man with no significant past medical history presents to the emergency department (ED) with a 3- to 4-month history of slowly progressive difficulty with active, but not passive, extension of the ring and little fingers of his right hand. He denies any tingling, numbness, or skin changes in his hands or his forearms. There is no neck pain, and a thorough neurologic review of symptoms, including motor weakness, decrease in proprioception, and 2-point discrimination, is negative.
Fingers That Won't Extend Rick Kulkarni, MD