Martinet X, Dhont F, Morel M, Menu F, Kadji O, Malka G
Service de chirurgie plastique et réparatrice, chirurgie de la main, CHU de Dijon, hôpital général, rue du faubourg Raines, BP 1519, 21033 Dijon, France.
Chir Main. 2001 Oct;20(5):388-90. doi: 10.1016/s1297-3203(01)00063-4.
Acute form of carpal tunnel syndrome is the less common presentation. Several etiologies are known as rheumatologic, hemopathic, endocrine or pregnant disorders and traumatic. Authors report a non yet described traumatic etiology, consecutive to hamate and triquetral fractures. Patient presented five hours after initial traumatism, a typical presentation of median nerve compression at wrist, with subjective and objective symptoms as pathologic Weber test. A classical median nerve release was performed in emergency. Nerve recuperation was complete two days after surgery, as usual in such pathology. This new etiology must be known; actually, nerve recuperation in acute carpal tunnel syndrome is time dependent.
