Bilateral attritional rupture of the ulnar nerve at the elbow.
In a 56-year-old woman with severely deforming rheumatoid arthritis, surgical exploration demonstrated partial rupture of one ulnar nerve and complete rupture of the other.
D000328:Adult; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications*; D004551:Elbow Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005910:Glioma / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009463:Neuroma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D011859:Radiography; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D014459:Ulnar Nerve / Q000601:surgery*