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Carpal tunnel syndrome caused by gouty tophus of the flexor tendons of the fingers: Sonographic features

✍ Scribed by Aravindakannan Therimadasamy; Yeong Pin Peng; Thomas Choudary Putti; Einar Patrick Vincent Wilder-Smith

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 553 KB
Volume: 39
Category: Article
ISSN: 0091-2751
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.20799

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Abstract

We report the case of a 23‐year‐old male presenting with carpal tunnel syndrome and a swelling over the flexor surface of the wrist. MRI findings were initially suggestive of a median nerve schwannoma but sonography (US) showed a heterogenous mass infiltrating the flexor tendons of the fingers and displacing the median nerve in the carpal tunnel. US findings were confirmed by surgical exploration, which revealed a gouty tophus of the flexor tendons of the fingers at the wrist with secondary median nerve displacement and compression. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound 2011.

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