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Abstracts Posters SICOT-SOF meeting Gothenburg 2010 _2_

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Poster<br />

Topic: General Orthopaedics<br />

Abstract number: 26208<br />

MINI OPEN IN-SITU DECOMPRESSION OF ULNAR NERVE AT THE CUBITAL<br />

TUNNEL: EARLY RESULTS OF A PROSPECTIVE STUDY<br />

K. KARTHIK, Rajesh NANDA, John STOTHARD<br />

James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough (UNITED KINGDOM)<br />

BACKGROUND: Ulnar nerve entrapment in the Cubital tunnel is a common<br />

peripheral neuropathy. Surgical treatments for it include simple decompression,<br />

medial epicondylectomy, subcutaneous or submuscular anterior transposition of the<br />

nerve. OBJECTIVE: The authors report early results in patients with Cubital tunnel<br />

syndrome who underwent in-situ decompression of the ulnar nerve through a mini<br />

open incision (

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