Case Report
Cubital tunnel syndrome: A report of two cases
South African Journal of Radiology | Vol 16, No 2 | a314 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajr.v16i2.314
| © 2012 Farhana Ebrahim Suleman, Mark D Velleman
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 24 February 2012 | Published: 12 June 2012
Submitted: 24 February 2012 | Published: 12 June 2012
About the author(s)
Farhana Ebrahim Suleman, University of Pretoria, South AfricaMark D Velleman, Radiology Department, Little Company of Mary Medical Centre, South Africa
Abstract
Cubital tunnel syndrome is the second most common peripheral neuropathy of the upper limb. This is due to the anatomy of the tunnel, the physiological changes that the nerve undergoes during elbow flexion, as well as pathological conditions that occur within the tunnel. We present two cases of ulnar neuropathy occurring at the level of the cubital tunnel, demonstrating that this entity may occur owing to an identifiable cause or may show only signal alteration without a visible cause on MRI.
Keywords
Cubital tunnel, ulnar neuropathy, anconeus epitrochlearis, retinaculum.
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