Tardy posterior interosseous nerve palsy associated with radial head fracture: a case report

BACKGROUND: A 55 year old gentleman presented with tardy posterior interosseous nerve palsy associated with radial head fracture. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient developed symptoms of wrist drop 24 hours after the injury whilst awaiting surgery for his Mason III radial head fracture. EMG studies conf...

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Autores principales: Daurka, Jas, Chen, Alvin, Akhtar, Kashif, Kamineni, Srinath
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2639562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19128490
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-22
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author Daurka, Jas
Chen, Alvin
Akhtar, Kashif
Kamineni, Srinath
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Akhtar, Kashif
Kamineni, Srinath
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description BACKGROUND: A 55 year old gentleman presented with tardy posterior interosseous nerve palsy associated with radial head fracture. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient developed symptoms of wrist drop 24 hours after the injury whilst awaiting surgery for his Mason III radial head fracture. EMG studies confirmed the presence of a posterior interosseous nerve lesion. Open exploration revealed oedematous soft tissues surrounding the nerve. The proximity of the nerve to the fracture and its course through the arcade of Frohse make it susceptible to injury, from the initial traumatic event and the following oedema. CONCLUSION: A full recovery occurred after exploration and decompression of the nerve.
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spelling pubmed-26395622009-02-11 Tardy posterior interosseous nerve palsy associated with radial head fracture: a case report Daurka, Jas Chen, Alvin Akhtar, Kashif Kamineni, Srinath Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: A 55 year old gentleman presented with tardy posterior interosseous nerve palsy associated with radial head fracture. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient developed symptoms of wrist drop 24 hours after the injury whilst awaiting surgery for his Mason III radial head fracture. EMG studies confirmed the presence of a posterior interosseous nerve lesion. Open exploration revealed oedematous soft tissues surrounding the nerve. The proximity of the nerve to the fracture and its course through the arcade of Frohse make it susceptible to injury, from the initial traumatic event and the following oedema. CONCLUSION: A full recovery occurred after exploration and decompression of the nerve. BioMed Central 2009-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2639562/ /pubmed/19128490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-22 Text en Copyright ©2009 Daurka et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tardy posterior interosseous nerve palsy associated with radial head fracture: a case report
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title_full Tardy posterior interosseous nerve palsy associated with radial head fracture: a case report
title_fullStr Tardy posterior interosseous nerve palsy associated with radial head fracture: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Tardy posterior interosseous nerve palsy associated with radial head fracture: a case report
title_short Tardy posterior interosseous nerve palsy associated with radial head fracture: a case report
title_sort tardy posterior interosseous nerve palsy associated with radial head fracture: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2639562/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-22
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