Abstract
A 35-year-old man had fallen down from the first floor and admitted emergency department with pain, swelling and deformity on the right elbow. The radiograph showed fracture of the right supracondylar humerus. After surgical exploration and internal fixations, the patient referred to our clinic as elbow contracture with traumatic median and ulnar nerve injury. The surgeon noted that radial nerve was seen as intact. In physical examination strength of extensor carpi radialis, extensor digitorum communis, extensor carpi ulnaris and lumbrical muscle grades were about 1/5. We also observed a sensory deficit in the radial nerve dermatome.
Highlights
A 35-year-old man had fallen down from the first floor and admitted emergency department with pain, swelling and deformity on the right elbow
After surgical exploration and internal fixations, the patient referred to our clinic as elbow contracture with traumatic median and ulnar nerve injury
The surgeon noted that radial nerve was seen as intact
Summary
Diagnostic Ultrasound for Traumatic Radial Nerve Injury: A Visual Vignette Rana Terlemez*, Selda Çiftçi, Tülay Erçalık, Jülide Öncü, Figen Yilmaz and Banu Kuran *Corresponding author: Rana Terlemez, MD, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Şişli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey, Tel: +90-5355544638, E-mail: ranakaynar@hotmail.com The radiograph showed fracture of the right supracondylar humerus. After surgical exploration and internal fixations, the patient referred to our clinic as elbow contracture with traumatic median and ulnar nerve injury.
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