A Rare Case of Traumatic Acute Pronator Syndrome in the Setting of Anticoagulation Therapy

Pronator syndrome (PS) is a rare type of peripheral compression neuropathy in which the median nerve becomes entrapped as it passes through the pronator teres muscle at the proximal forearm. We report an unusual case of acute PS in a 78-year-old patient on warfarin who presented after traumatic fore...

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Autores principales: Tuano, Krystle R, Fisher, Marlie H, Yang, Jerry H, Gordon, Mickey J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Orthopedics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10148760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37131579
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36931
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author Tuano, Krystle R
Fisher, Marlie H
Yang, Jerry H
Gordon, Mickey J
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Gordon, Mickey J
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description Pronator syndrome (PS) is a rare type of peripheral compression neuropathy in which the median nerve becomes entrapped as it passes through the pronator teres muscle at the proximal forearm. We report an unusual case of acute PS in a 78-year-old patient on warfarin who presented after traumatic forearm injury with forearm swelling, pain, and paresthesias. After emergent nerve decompression and hematoma evacuation, the patient regained near complete recovery of median nerve function six months after diagnosis and treatment.
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spelling pubmed-101487602023-05-01 A Rare Case of Traumatic Acute Pronator Syndrome in the Setting of Anticoagulation Therapy Tuano, Krystle R Fisher, Marlie H Yang, Jerry H Gordon, Mickey J Cureus Orthopedics Pronator syndrome (PS) is a rare type of peripheral compression neuropathy in which the median nerve becomes entrapped as it passes through the pronator teres muscle at the proximal forearm. We report an unusual case of acute PS in a 78-year-old patient on warfarin who presented after traumatic forearm injury with forearm swelling, pain, and paresthesias. After emergent nerve decompression and hematoma evacuation, the patient regained near complete recovery of median nerve function six months after diagnosis and treatment. Cureus 2023-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10148760/ /pubmed/37131579 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36931 Text en Copyright © 2023, Tuano et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Orthopedics
Tuano, Krystle R
Fisher, Marlie H
Yang, Jerry H
Gordon, Mickey J
A Rare Case of Traumatic Acute Pronator Syndrome in the Setting of Anticoagulation Therapy
title A Rare Case of Traumatic Acute Pronator Syndrome in the Setting of Anticoagulation Therapy
title_full A Rare Case of Traumatic Acute Pronator Syndrome in the Setting of Anticoagulation Therapy
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Traumatic Acute Pronator Syndrome in the Setting of Anticoagulation Therapy
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Traumatic Acute Pronator Syndrome in the Setting of Anticoagulation Therapy
title_short A Rare Case of Traumatic Acute Pronator Syndrome in the Setting of Anticoagulation Therapy
title_sort rare case of traumatic acute pronator syndrome in the setting of anticoagulation therapy
topic Orthopedics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10148760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37131579
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36931
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