tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Intraneural hemangioma of the median nerve: A case report"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Intraneural hemangioma of the median nerve: A case report. | Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury BioMed Central Case report Open Access Intraneural hemangioma of the median nerve A case report Yunus Dogramaci Aydiner Kalaci Teoman Toni Sevinẹ and Ahmet Nedim Yanat Address Dept. of Orthopaedics and Traumatology Mustafa Kemal University Faculty of Medicine Hatay Turkey Email Yunus Dogramaci - yunus_latif85@ Aydiner Kalaci - orthopedi@ Teoman Toni Sevinẹ - sevinctt@ Ahmet Nedim Yanat - an_yanat@ Corresponding author Published 22 February 2008 Received 16 December 2007 Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2008 3 5 doi 1749-7221-3- Accepted 22 Fd ruary 2008 5 This article is available from http content 3 1 5 2008 Dogramaci et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Hemangiomas of the median nerve are very rare and so far only ten cases of intraneural hemangioma of this nerve have been reported in the literature. We present a case of 14-year-old girl who had a soft tissue mass in the region of the left wrist with signs and symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. Total removal of the mass was achieved using microsurgical epineural and interfasicular dissection. The symptoms were relieved completely after this procedure without any neurologic deficit. On follow-up two years later no recurrence was observed. Whenever a child or young adult patient presents with CTS the possibility of a hemangioma involving the median nerve should be kept in mind in the differential diagnosis. Introduction The carpal tunnel syndrome CTS is the most common neuropathy due to compression seen in adults. There are very few cases in the literature referring to patients of paediatric age 1 . Most of .