Acta chirurgiae plasticae
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Acta chirurgiae plasticae · Jan 2013
Review Case ReportsCombined triggering at the wrist and fingers and severe carpal tunnel syndrome caused by macrodystrophia lipomatosa. Case report and review of literature.
Macrodystrophia lipomatosa (MDL) is a rare, congenital, developmental anomaly causing localized overgrowth of a digit(s) or extremity. Trigger wrist is a relatively rare entity, which may be caused by a mass originating from a tendon, an anomalous muscle or intracarpal pathologies. A 42-year-old male patient presented with triggering during active motion of the fingers and intractable pain and numbness in fingers to our emergency department. ⋯ The index finger was bigger than the other fingers and thenar eminence area of the hand looked like a large mass. Resection of hypertrophic carpal bone and debulking of large soft tissue mass removed the carpal tunnel symptoms and limited the range of motion of the wrist and fingers. This is a case report of triggering at the wrist and severe carpal tunnel syndrome due to carpal bone enlargement and lipofibromatous hamartoma (LH) of the median nerve in a patient with MDL.
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The aim of this paper is to ascertain the number of patients with a burn injury sustained during an epileptic seizure treated in our facility, to identify the characteristics of these types of injuries and to suggest preventive measures, which could reduce the frequency and morbidity of such injuries. ⋯ Patients with epilepsy should be informed about all potential threats at the time of neurological diagnosis including also the risk of serious burn injury, which should be emphasised.