ipomas are seen mainly during mid adulthood and represent the most common benign soft tissue tumors of this age group. Subcutaneous, most often asymptomatic, soft mobile masses are by far the most frequent manifestation and are known to arise typically from superficial areas of the trunk and proximal extremities. Conversely, deep-seated lipomas, such as the intramuscular lipoma, are relatively ...

Numbers of functioning motor units have been estimated in 124 muscles of boys with Duchenne dystrophy; some of the patients were studied on several occasions. In the distal muscles examined (extensor digitorum brevis, thenar, and hypothenar muscles) the losses of units were probably present at birth and did not decrease with age. In contrast, the numbers of units and of excitable muscle fibres ...

A 63 year old male with a history of gout and hypertension presented with carpal tunnel syndrome. He gave history of bilateral wrist pain associated with numbness over the median nerve distribution of the hand. Tinels sign and Phalens test were positive with no obvious thenar muscle wasting on examination. Tophaceous deposits in the flexor tendons and within the synovium of the wrist joint was ...

In 1943 Hodgson described a case of “ congenital retardation in development of the carpal navicular, first metacarpal and styloid process of the radius “ in association with wasting of the thenar muscles and recurrent sprains of the wrists. He was unable to find any previous description of a similar case and no other seems to have been recorded since 1944. The present paper describes two furthe...

The objective of this study was to apply a novel multidimensional motor unit number index (MD-MUNIX) technique to examine hand muscles in patients with incomplete cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). The MD-MUNIX was estimated from the compound muscle action potential (CMAP) and different levels of surface interference pattern electromyogram (EMG) at multiple directions of voluntary isometric mus...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the risk factors and clinical features of upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) in mobile device users. A report analysis which included 59 subjects between the ages of 5 to 56 years, who were diagnosed to have a MSD affecting the upper extremities was done. All the patients underwent rehabilitation using a sequenced protocol. All the subjects rep...