Factitious pain and swelling of the upper arm. Case report.
After a trivial injury, a 16-year-old girl had pain, disability and oedema in her right arm. In a first operation the suspectedly entrapped ulnar nerve was anteposed, and in a second--because symptoms worsened--it was retroposed. The condition proved to be self-induced, by compression of the arm with a bandage.
D000293:Adolescent; D001132:Arm / Q000098:blood supply*; D001458:Bandages / Q000009:adverse effects; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009132:Muscles / Q000601:surgery; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*