Epicondylar resection with anconeus muscle transfer for chronic lateral epicondylitis

Painful neuroma of the posterior cutaneous nerve of the forearm after surgery for lateral humeral epicondylitis

“…[1][2][3][4][5] Failure of release of the extensor tendon origin to relieve symptoms has been ascribed to radial nerve entrapment. 6 It is possible, however, that this failure-especially in patients whose failure is expressed as pain-may be due to a painful neuroma.…”

Functional differences between anatomical regions of the anconeus muscle in humans

“…On this basis it is often used as a muscle flap in the treatment of various pathologies, such as chronic lateral epicondylalgia [Almquist, et al, 1998] and complicated distal humerus fractures [Ozer, et al, 2006]. Although no study has identified deficits in elbow function after surgery [Schmidt, et al, 1999;Luchetti, et al, 2005], this may be due to use of gross measures that lack the sensitivity to detect any 10 insufficiency.…”

The Innervation of the Medial Humeral Epicondyle: Implications for Medial Epicondylar Pain

“…injury to the musculoskeletal origins of the pronator teres and flexor carpi ulnaris on the medial humeral epicondyle. While non-operative treatment can improve 80% of the patients Nirschl and Pettrone, 1979;Rayan and Coray, 2001, there are sufficient failures with residual pain that new approaches are still being investigated Almquist et al, 1998, including treatment with light waves of varying wave lengths (Simunovic et al, 1998), extra-corporal shock wave therapy (Krischek et al, 1999), and steroid iontophoresis (Nirschl et al, 2003).…”