Sensui Kunihiro, Saitoh Satoru, Kametani Kiyokazu, Makino Kuniaki, Ohira Masayoshi, Kimura Teiji, Cheng Goh Ah, Hata Yukihiko
Department of Orthopaedics, Toyoshina Red Cross Hospital, Japan.
Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 2003 Oct;123(8):442-5. doi: 10.1007/s00402-003-0574-0. Epub 2003 Aug 15.
A 64-year-old woman presented with symptoms of subacute exacerbation of a year-long carpal tunnel syndrome that was caused by a large calcified mass in the tunnel.
The resected mass consisted of very tiny rods, and x-ray diffraction analysis, as well as the component analysis using energy dispersive x-ray microanalysis, revealed the mass to be most compatible with apatite. The back-scattered electron images suggested that precipitation might be a mechanism for development of the calcified mass.
一名64岁女性出现症状，其长达一年的腕管综合征呈亚急性加重，病因是腕管内有一个巨大的钙化肿块。
切除的肿块由非常微小的棒状物组成，X射线衍射分析以及使用能量色散X射线微量分析的成分分析表明，该肿块与磷灰石最为相符。背散射电子图像表明，沉淀可能是钙化肿块形成的一种机制。
