title: Pediatric ulnar mononeuropathy: report of 21 electromyography-documented cases and review of the literature.
abstract: Pediatric ulnar mononeuropathies are the most frequent upper extremity mononeuropathies seen in the electromyography laboratory at The Children's Hospital, Boston. Twenty-one children (12 boys and nine girls) with pediatric ulnar mononeuropathy, aged 5 to 18 years, were seen from 1979 to 1991. The causes included acute trauma in 11 children (52%), compression in five children (24%), entrapment in three children (14%), and indeterminate in two children (10%). The sites of nerve injury included the elbow in 10 children (48%), forearm in three children (14%), wrist in five children (24%), hand in one child (4%), and indeterminate in the remaining two children (10%). Prognosis is more favorable in nontraumatic (83% improved) pediatric ulnar neuropathies than with traumatic lesions (56% improved), with at least a 1-year follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Felice
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Royden Jones
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014459:Ulnar Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology*