Supracondylar Process Syndrome: Case Report and Literature Review

Opanova, Maria; Atkinson, Robert E.

doi:10.1016/j.jhsa.2014.03.035

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“…3 Struthers' ligament is well recognized as a cause of median nerve entrapment. 4 To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of its influence on the management of a traumatic nerve injury.…”

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Struthers' ligament and traumatic median nerve injury: case illustration

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Khuong

2017

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Struthers' ligament and traumatic median nerve injury: case illustration

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Khuong

2017

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“…Supracondylar syndrome is usually associated with the emergence of the supracondylar process, also known as the supracondyloid, supraepitrochlear, epicondylar, or epicondyloid process. This process consists of a spike-shaped bone spur arising from the mid-distal section of the humerus, that is, from the middle of the bone to the part closest to the elbow «The symptoms that characterise supracondylar syndrome are numbness, tingling, pain, and forearm and hand weakness» Endless forms (Opanova & Atkinson, 2014) (Figure 2, left drawing). This spur is normally between 4 and 8 centimetres from the medial epicondyle of the humerus (the region of the humerus closest to the body and at the height of the elbow joint) and projects by between 2 mm and 20 mm.…”

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“…Pain, a tingling sensation, numbness, and progressive weakness of the arm and hand are the common symptoms of a compressive neuropathy of the median nerve called supracondylar syndrome. Together with other neuropathies of the same type, supracondylar syndrome affects a percentage of the human population varying between 0.1 % and 2.7 % of adult individuals (see Opanova & Atkinson, 2014). This is a congenital syndrome and its main feature is compression of the median nerve and/or the brachial artery at the lower end of the humerus at the height of the elbow joint (Koo & Szabo, 2004).…”

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Una visión evolutiva del síndrome supracondilar. Sobre atavismos y la aparición de los primeros tetrápodos

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2019

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Understanding the evolution and function of structures in the past is key to understanding current biodiversity. This paper shows how an evolutionary perspective can help us to understand supracondylar syndrome. This pathology is caused by compression of the median nerve and/or the brachial artery in the arm and affects a significant percentage of the human population. We propose that this neuropathy is an atavism (the reappearance of an ancestral characteristic that had been lost along our evolutionary lineage) of the entepicondylar foramen: a channel present at the lower end of the humerus through which the brachial artery and the median nerve pass in some mammals. The origin of the foramen has been identified in the first tetrapods, and we propose that its original function could be linked to the evolutionary innovation of the cervical brachial plexus as well as the subsequent evolution of the entepicondylar foramen in amniotes – a group of terrestrial vertebrates that encompasses current reptiles and amphibians – and that it may be vestigial.

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“…Both accessory muscles are between the median nerve and the anterior interosseous nerve, with the median nerve lying anteriorly and the anterior interosseous posteriorly to the muscle. So a nerve can be entrapped due to repetitive contraction of Gantzer muscle [141516]. …”

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The Median Nerve at the Carpal Tunnel … and Elsewhere

Meyer

Lintingre

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Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology

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The median nerve (MN) may be affected by various peripheral neuropathies, each of which may be categorized according to its cause, as either an extrinsic (due to an entrapment or a nerve compression) or an intrinsic (including neurogenic tumors) neuropathy. Entrapment neuropathies are characterized by alterations of the nerve function that are caused by mechanical or dynamic compression. It occurs because of anatomic constraints at specific locations including sites where the nerve courses through fibro-osseous or fibromuscular tunnels or penetrates a muscle. For the diagnosis of peripheral neuropathies, physicians traditionally relied primarily on clinical findings and electrodiagnostic testing with electromyography. However, if further doubt exists, clinicians may ask for an additional imaging evaluation.

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Supracondylar Process Syndrome: Case Report and Literature Review

Cited by 34 publications

References 28 publications

Struthers' ligament and traumatic median nerve injury: case illustration

Struthers' ligament and traumatic median nerve injury: case illustration

Una visión evolutiva del síndrome supracondilar. Sobre atavismos y la aparición de los primeros tetrápodos

The Median Nerve at the Carpal Tunnel … and Elsewhere

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