1. Onchocerciasis of the flexor compartment of the forearm: a case report.
- Author
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Simmons EH, Van Peteghem K, and Trammell TR
- Subjects
- Adult, Canada, Europe, Forearm surgery, Granuloma parasitology, Granuloma pathology, Humans, Male, Median Nerve, Nerve Compression Syndromes parasitology, Onchocerciasis pathology, Tenosynovitis parasitology, Travel, Forearm parasitology, Muscular Diseases parasitology, Onchocerciasis complications
- Abstract
A 36-year-old white male schoolteacher presented with a painless, semifluctuant mass on the volar aspect of his forearm and symptoms of ring finger tenosynovitis and median nerve compression. At operation there was a widespread infestation of the flexor tendon compartment, the carpal tunnel, and the tendon sheaths of the ringer finger with Onchocerca volvulus, a filarial nematode, not previously reported in the these tissues.
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- 1980
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