15 - Décompression in situ du nerf ulnaire au coude par technique endoscopique : à propos de 22 cas

Endoscopically assisted nerve decompression of rare nerve compression syndromes at the upper extremity

“…The technique presented here was adapted from one used previously for cubital tunnel syndrome. The latter was introduced in 1995 by Tsai et al [1] and since this princeps (principle) publication, two types of surgical endoscopically assisted nerve decompression techniques have been used: Knives [9][10][11][12] and scissors [13][14][15][16][17][18] techniques. Despite the excellent results sometimes reported in the literature, endoscopically assisted knife techniques are in our opinion hazardous because of the discrepancy between the size of the instruments and that of the nerve, and the inherent resulting potential for intraoperative nerve injuries.…”