title: Cubital tunnel syndrome. Treatment by medial epicondylectomy.
abstract: Thirty patients ranging in age from twenty-five to seventy-seven years old underwent medial epicondylectomy with anterior transposition of the ulnar nerve for the cubital tunnel syndrome. Presenting symptoms invariably included hypesthesia in the hand; other common complaints included dysesthesia and weakness of grip. The preoperative nerve-conduction velocity was slowed in all the patients studied. Postoperative responses in all patients included almost immediate relief of pain, no limitation of range of motion of the elbow, and a return to normal of nerve-condition velocity in all but two of the patients tested. The procedure is recommended for patients with cubital tunnel syndrome associated with abnormal nerve-conduction velocity.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D014459:Ulnar Nerve / Q000601:surgery*