[Case report: acute carpal tunnel syndrome with prolapse of the median nerve]

C Kindler1, B Lukas

  • 1Hand- und Ellenbogenchirurgie, Mikrochirurgie und Plastische Chirurgie, Schön Klinik München-Harlaching, München.

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|October 4, 2013
PubMed

We report a case of an 80-year-old woman with an acute carpal tunnel syndrome. This was based on an acute episode of chondrocalcinoses and accompagnied by a prolaps of the median nerve into a gap of the forearm fascia as result of a cut injury in childhood.