Thrombosed persistent median artery causing carpal tunnel syndrome associated with bifurcated median nerve: A case report

BACKGROUND: Carpal tunnel syndrome is a sporadically occurring abnormality due to compression of median nerve. It is exceedingly rare for it to be caused by thrombosis of persistent median artery. CASE REPORT: A forty two year old female was referred for ultrasound examination due to ongoing wrist p...

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Autores principales: Salter, Martyn, Sinha, Nitin Raj, Szmigielski, Wojciech
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Scientific Literature, Inc. 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3389914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22802832
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description BACKGROUND: Carpal tunnel syndrome is a sporadically occurring abnormality due to compression of median nerve. It is exceedingly rare for it to be caused by thrombosis of persistent median artery. CASE REPORT: A forty two year old female was referred for ultrasound examination due to ongoing wrist pain, not relived by pain killers and mild paresthesia on the radial side of the hand. High resolution ultrasound and Doppler revealed a thrombosed persistent median artery and associated bifurcated median nerve. The thrombus resolved on treatment with anticoagulants. CONCLUSIONS: Ultrasound examination of the wrist when done for patients with carpal tunnel syndrome should preferably include looking for persistent median artery and its patency
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spelling pubmed-33899142012-07-16 Thrombosed persistent median artery causing carpal tunnel syndrome associated with bifurcated median nerve: A case report Salter, Martyn Sinha, Nitin Raj Szmigielski, Wojciech Pol J Radiol Case Report BACKGROUND: Carpal tunnel syndrome is a sporadically occurring abnormality due to compression of median nerve. It is exceedingly rare for it to be caused by thrombosis of persistent median artery. CASE REPORT: A forty two year old female was referred for ultrasound examination due to ongoing wrist pain, not relived by pain killers and mild paresthesia on the radial side of the hand. High resolution ultrasound and Doppler revealed a thrombosed persistent median artery and associated bifurcated median nerve. The thrombus resolved on treatment with anticoagulants. CONCLUSIONS: Ultrasound examination of the wrist when done for patients with carpal tunnel syndrome should preferably include looking for persistent median artery and its patency International Scientific Literature, Inc. 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3389914/ /pubmed/22802832 Text en © Pol J Radiol, 2011 This is an open access article. Unrestricted non-commercial use is permitted provided the original work is properly cited.
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Thrombosed persistent median artery causing carpal tunnel syndrome associated with bifurcated median nerve: A case report
title Thrombosed persistent median artery causing carpal tunnel syndrome associated with bifurcated median nerve: A case report
title_full Thrombosed persistent median artery causing carpal tunnel syndrome associated with bifurcated median nerve: A case report
title_fullStr Thrombosed persistent median artery causing carpal tunnel syndrome associated with bifurcated median nerve: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Thrombosed persistent median artery causing carpal tunnel syndrome associated with bifurcated median nerve: A case report
title_short Thrombosed persistent median artery causing carpal tunnel syndrome associated with bifurcated median nerve: A case report
title_sort thrombosed persistent median artery causing carpal tunnel syndrome associated with bifurcated median nerve: a case report
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22802832
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