The article presents current views about upper limb neuropathies, their treatment and clinical manifestations. The following conditions are described: carpal tunnel syndrome(CTS), cubital tunnel syndrome(CUTS), radial tunnel syndrome, and posterior nervus interosseus syndrome.

Background: Cubital tunnel syndrome, a neuropathy of ulnar nerve, is the second most common entrapping syndrome in the upper limb surpassing carpal tunnel syndrome. This syndrome arises from a high pressure decompressing the nerve for a long time. Patients with cubital tunnel syndrome show numbness in the ring and small fingers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the etiology of cubital tunn...

Crouzon syndrome is the most common syndrome among the craniosynostosis group. Crouzon syndrome accounts for about 4.8% of all of them. It commonly has autosomal dominant inheritance with complete penetrance and variable expressivity from subtle to severe forms and characterized by craniosynostosis, exophthalmos, and hypoplastic maxilla with relative mandibular prognathism. Mutation of the fibr...

a 3-year-old boy was admitted to the emergency department with right lower limb pain, edema, and livedoid discoloration that occurred immediately after intramuscular injection of benzathine penicillin. the patient was diagnosed with nicolau syndrome, a rare complication of intramuscular injection presumed to be related to the inadvertent intravascular injection. it was first reported following ...

Mandibular advancing devices are proposed as nonsurgical treatment for certain patients with an obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome. Since they act by increasing the upper airway calibre, the aim of the present study was to investigate the changes in respiratory resistance (Rrs) resulting from mandibular advancement. Rrs was measured at the nose by the forced oscillation technique (4-32 Hz). Ten ...

developing supernumerary limbs is a rare congenital condition that only a few cases have been documented. depending on the cause and developmental conditions, they may be single, multiple or complicated, and occur as a syndrome or associated with other anomalies. polymelia is defined as the presence of extra limb(s) which have been reported in human, mouse, chicken, calf and lamb. it seems that...

Restless leg syndrome is one of the most common causes of severe insomnia, and is easily diagnosed by patient history alone. Formal sleep studies are rarely, if ever, indicated. The only routine laboratory study indicated is a serum ferritin level. The majority of patients with restless leg syndrome obtain substantial relief with a variety of medications. Although the majority of restless leg s...