High Division of the Median Nerve with Unusually High Origin of the 3rd Space Common Digital Nerve
| Autor: | Ileana Rodica Matei, Iuliu Alpar Kadar, Timea Helga Virág, Alexandru Valentin Georgescu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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030222 orthopedics
Iatrogenic injury business.industry Anatomical structures 030208 emergency & critical care medicine Anatomy Wrist Hand Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Median nerve Endoscopic carpal tunnel release Median Nerve 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine.anatomical_structure Cutaneous branch medicine General Earth and Planetary Sciences Humans Carpal tunnel Digital nerve Ulnar nerve business Ulnar Nerve General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Injury. 51 |
| ISSN: | 1879-0267 |
| Popis: | Background Median nerve (MN) variation in the carpal tunnel has been well documented by Lanz. Encountering rarely documented variants, that do not fit into existing classifications, increases the risk of iatrogenic injury. Methods The random occurrence of two unclassifiable anatomical variants of the MN in the carpal tunnel gives motivation to search the literature for similar and identical cases. Case reports This article presents two cases of very rare anatomical variants of high division of the MN. First case is a pure high branching of the 3rd space common digital nerve (CDN). The second case is a high division of the MN to a thicker lateral component and a thinner medial component. The lateral component of the MN gives off the palmar cutaneous branch (PCB), the thenar motor branch (TMB), the 1st and 2nd space CDN's and contributes medially with a branch to the 3rd space CDN. The medial component of the MN bifurcates distally into a medial and lateral branch. The lateral branch from the medial component of the MN distally unites with the medial branch of the lateral component of the MN to form the 3rd space CDN. The medial branch from the medial component of the MN has a major contribution to the 4th space CDN from the ulnar nerve. In both cases, the medial component of the MN has a transmuscular course through the flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS) muscle. Discussion Finding similar case reports from worldwide suggests the need to improve current classification of the MN variants in the carpal tunnel. Conclusions One cannot rely entirely on the existing anatomical classifications of the MN in the carpal tunnel. There is an underappreciated risk of iatrogenic injury, especially in endoscopic carpal tunnel release, and a chance of missing out on repair of important anatomical structures in trauma cases. There is a possibility of augmenting group 3 of Lanz's classification by adding subgroup “3D High division of the MN with the medial component having a transmuscular course through the FDS muscle”, stating the different distal branching patterns. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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