Injury to the medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve during cubital tunnel surgery.
This report calls attention to the increasingly common operative complication of injury to the medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve during surgery on the cubital tunnel. The anatomical variations of site of this nerve are described, as well as typical examples of injury seen clinically.
D002921:Cicatrix / Q000209:etiology; D005542:Forearm / Q000294:innervation; D006801:Humans; D006930:Hyperalgesia / Q000209:etiology; D006941:Hyperesthesia / Q000209:etiology; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000601:surgery*; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D012867:Skin / Q000294:innervation*; D014459:Ulnar Nerve