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Original Scientific Reports

Fascicular constrictions in patients with spontaneous palsy of the anterior interosseous nerve and the posterior interosseous nerve

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Pages 19-24 | Accepted 15 Aug 2011, Published online: 28 Mar 2012
 

Abstract

There is no definition for fascicular constrictions of the spontaneous anterior interosseous nerve palsy (sAINP) and spontaneous posterior interosseous nerve palsy (sPINP). One surgeon has evaluated his findings in our 32 patients of sAINP/sPINP using either photographs or video tapes and proposed a definition. All patients had interfascicular neurolysis, and 87 case reports of “fascicular constriction” were also evaluated. Fascicular constriction was defined as every instance of thinning in the fascicle regardless to its extent. Thinning as a result of extrinsic compression was excluded. The fascicular constrictions were divided into four types: recessed, recessed-bulging, rotation, and rotation-bulging constriction. Two independent surgeons went through our findings to verify their repeatability. The relation between the fascicular constrictions and age at the onset of palsy was evaluated using Student's t test. We found 54 fascicular constrictions, with many variations. However, they could all be categorised by our method. The repeatability among the independent authors was 96%. The age at the onset of palsy was significantly younger in rotation-bulging than in rotation constriction (p = 0.0003). Our definition of describing fascicular constrictions was accurate, and should help to provide consensus in describing these palsies.

Acknowledgement

We thank Professor A Nagano for his helpful suggestions regarding the naming in types of fascicular constrictions. We also thank Professor Y Toyama, Dr H Ikegami, Dr T Nakamura, Dr K Sato, Dr H Saito, Dr N Okuyama, Dr M Okazaki, Dr T Iwamoto, and other members of the Hand Surgery Group at Keio University School of Medicine for useful points of discussion. We also thank Dr M Kihara, Dr M Seki, Dr N Nakamichi, Dr K Morita, Dr M Yagi, Dr K Takeda, Dr K Ninomiya, Dr T Hasegawa, and Dr E Okada at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kawasaki Municipal Kawasaki Hospital for their clinical support.

Declaration of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.

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