Onchocerciasis of the flexor compartment of the forearm: a case report.
A 36-year-old white male schoolteacher presented with a painless, semifluctuant mass on the volar aspect of his forearm and symptoms of ring finger tenosynovitis and median nerve compression. At operation there was a widespread infestation of the flexor tendon compartment, the carpal tunnel, and the tendon sheaths of the ringer finger with Onchocerca volvulus, a filarial nematode, not previously reported in the these tissues.
D000328:Adult; D002170:Canada; D005060:Europe; D005542:Forearm / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000601:surgery; D006099:Granuloma / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008475:Median Nerve; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000469:parasitology*; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000469:parasitology; D009855:Onchocerciasis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D013717:Tenosynovitis / Q000469:parasitology; D014195:Travel