title: [A deep palmar muscle as a cause for carpal tunnel syndrome].
abstract: In young patients with bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome and a negative history of synovialitis, trauma, and metabolic disease one has to consider rare muscle variations as a cause of the syndrome. Besides variations of the lumbrical muscles and the superficial flexor digitorum muscles, variations of the palmaris longus muscle can be the causative anomalous structure. A case of carpal tunnel syndrome caused by a palmaris profundus muscle in presence of a normal palmaris longus muscle is reported.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Plastische und Rekonstruktive Chirurgie, I. Chirurgischen Universitätsklinik Wien.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Piza-Katzer
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rath
mesh_terms: D002349:Carpal Tunnel Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008475:Median Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009132:Muscles / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D009431:Neural Conduction / Q000502:physiology
vernacular_title: Ein Musculus palmaris profundus als Ursache für ein Karpaltunnelsyndrom.