Carpal tunnel syndrome due to thrombosed persisting median artery. A case report.
Surgical intervention for carpal tunnel syndrome in a seventy year old woman revealed thrombosis of a double persisting median artery. The persisting median artery is a rare anomaly and its association with a thrombotic process to cause carpal tunnel syndrome is even rarer. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a widely-known phenomenon about which much has been written in the medical literature. A persisting median artery accompanying the nerve into the carpal tunnel is uncommon, occurring in only about 10% of such cases (Pecket, 1973) and thrombosis of such an artery as a cause for carpal tunnel syndrome is very rare (Burnham, 1963; DeAbreu & Godoy Moreira, 1958). We describe a case in which thrombosis is a double persisting median artery was discovered to be the cause of carpal tunnel syndrome at operation.
D000368:Aged; D001158:Arteries / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology; D002349:Carpal Tunnel Syndrome / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005542:Forearm / Q000098:blood supply*; D006801:Humans; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology