Abstract:
:A prospective study of anatomic variations of the median nerve and its relationship to the surrounding structures was performed of 354 consecutive operations in 192 patients with carpal tunnel syndrome at Korea University Anam Hospital from July 1995 to September 1997. A total of 184 patients were women and 8 patients were men. A total of 162 patients were bilateral and 30 were unilateral. Regarding the course of the motor branch, the extraligamentous type was most common (96.1%, 340 patients). A total of 81.1% of patients (N = 287) had the origin of the motor branch at the radial side of the median nerve (or radial one third), and 17.2% of patients (N = 61) had the origin of the motor branch at the anterior portion of the median nerve. Of these 61 patients, 30 patients (49.1%) were of the preligamentous type. Only one motor nerve branch was found in 89.5% of patients (N = 317), and multiple branches were found in 10.5% of patients. As a result of the comparison between two hands when both hands were operated, the origin and number of motor branches and their courses were identical in most patients (>60%). Hypertrophy of the flexor pollicis brevis was found in 8.5% of patients (N = 30), hypertrophy of the palmaris brevis was found in 4.2% of patients (N = 15), absence of the palmaris longus was discovered in 0.6% of patients (N = 2), existence of the median artery was found in 0.6% of patients (N = 2), and high division of the median nerve rejoining with the thenar motor nerve was found in 0.3% of patients (N = 1). Clearly, the anatomy of the carpal tunnel in Koreans is somewhat different, in part, from the results obtained from studies of whites, but overall results are not significantly different. These results can help obtain a better surgical outcome and complete decompression of the median nerve during operation while preventing inappropriate or inadvertent injury to the motor branch of the median nerve in Koreans.
journal_name
Ann Plast Surgjournal_title
Annals of plastic surgeryauthors
Ahn DS,Yoon ES,Koo SH,Park SHdoi
10.1097/00000637-200044030-00006subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2000-03-01 00:00:00pages
282-7issue
3eissn
0148-7043issn
1536-3708journal_volume
44pub_type
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