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Lacertus syndrome: a commonly missed and misdiagnosed median nerve entrapment syndrome

Author: Donald Lalonde

Published in: BMC Proceedings | Special Issue 3/2015

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Carpal tunnel syndrome is a compression of the median nerve which occurs under a sheet of ligamentous tissue (transverse carpal ligament) just past the wrist joint. Lacertus tunnel syndrome is a compression of the median nerve which occurs under a sheet of ligamentous tissue (lacertus fibrosus) just past the elbow joint. Lacertus syndrome has been well described by Hagert (Hagert E. Clinical diagnosis and wide-awake surgical treatment of proximal median nerve entrapment at the elbow: a prospective study. Hand (NY). 2013; 8(1): 41-6.) …

Title: Lacertus syndrome: a commonly missed and misdiagnosed median nerve entrapment syndrome
Author: Donald Lalonde
Publication date: 01-12-2015
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: BMC Proceedings / Issue Special Issue 3/2015
Electronic ISSN: 1753-6561
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1753-6561-9-S3-A74

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