[Acute carpal tunnel syndrome. A report of an etiological form not previously described].
Acute form of carpal tunnel syndrome is the less common presentation. Several etiologies are known as rheumatologic, hemopathic, endocrine or pregnant disorders and traumatic. Authors report a non yet described traumatic etiology, consecutive to hamate and triquetral fractures. Patient presented five hours after initial traumatism, a typical presentation of median nerve compression at wrist, with subjective and objective symptoms as pathologic Weber test. A classical median nerve release was performed in emergency. Nerve recuperation was complete two days after surgery, as usual in such pathology. This new etiology must be known; actually, nerve recuperation in acute carpal tunnel syndrome is time dependent.
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Service de chirurgie plastique et réparatrice, chirurgie de la main, CHU de Dijon, hôpital général, rue du faubourg Raines, BP 1519, 21033 Dijon, France.
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Morel
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Kadji
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Malka
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D002349:Carpal Tunnel Syndrome / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005596:Fractures, Closed / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014954:Wrist Injuries / Q000150:complications*