A case of isolated anterior interosseous nerve palsy with its characteristic clinical picture of lack of function is described. The typical symptoms are the inability to flex the terminal phalanges of the thumb and index finger, possibly of other fingers too, and the inability to pronate the forearm
The anterior interosseous nerve syndrome
β Scribed by C.-O. Worner
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 523 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0341-2695
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π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Entrapment of the median nerve in the proximal forearm is seen in two forms: the pronator teres syndrome, and the anterior interosseous nerve (or Kiloh-Nevin) syndrome Both syndromes are rare, and they comprised approximately 1 % of the compression syndromes of the upper limb which were treated oper
Lesions at the volar aspect of the forearm may lead to isolated paralysis of the anterior interosseous nerve, which is a purely motor branch of the median nerve. The same syndrome may result from circumscribed damage at the level of the upper arm. Two patients are reported with the typical anterior