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Ultrasound-Guided Needle Release Combined with Corticosteroid Injection for the Treatment of Supinator Syndrome
Published on: May 26, 2023
[Pain in the left hand especially pronounced in the ring finger and small finger]
A Scherens1, O Höffken, M Tegenthoff
1Abteilung Schmerztherapie, BG-Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil GmbH, Bochum, Bürkle-de-la-Camp-Platz 1, 44789 Bochum, Deutschland. andrea.scherens@rub.de
Abstract:
A case is described of a female patient, who presented with permanent stabbing and burning pain in the ring finger and small finger of the left hand. Because of this pain neurolysis of the sulcus ulnaris had been carried out 4 months previously, which did not result in an improvement but led to a spreading of the symptoms to the whole hand. Diagnostic three-phase skeletal scintigraphy and neurography were performed. In 1999 breast cancer was diagnosed and surgically treated. Oncological follow-up 2 months before presentation revealed no conspicuous findings.Readers are encouraged to make their own diagnosis on the basis of the clinical findings and to discuss the case online (http://blogs.springer.com/DerSchmerz).
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