Lipofibromatous hamartoma of the median nerve with macrodactyly of middle finger
| Autor: | Alaa A. Dawood, Mubder A. Mohammed Saeed, Hayder M. Mahmood |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
030222 orthopedics
medicine.medical_specialty Macrodactyly business.industry Decompression Case Report Middle finger Wrist medicine.disease Lipofibromatous hamartoma Median nerve Surgery 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine.anatomical_structure Medicine Hamartoma Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine business |
| Zdroj: | J Clin Orthop Trauma |
| Popis: | Lipofibromatous Hamartoma (LFH) is a rare tumour affecting the peripheral nerves, mostly the median nerve. It is benign and slowly growing. Less than 100 cases have been reported in the literature, about one quarter of them are associated with macrodactyly in the field of the affected nerve. We reported a case of a 13 years old female with LFH of the median nerve at the level of the wrist associated Macrodactyly of the ipsilateral middle finger treated surgically by decompression only. |
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