Arthroscopic Extra-articular Ulnar Nerve Release in the Setting of Stiff Elbow.

ABSTRACT: Elbow stiffness can severely affect a patient's quality of life. If conservative treatment is ineffective, surgical treatment including open or arthroscopic release could be applied. With the advantages of being minimally invasive, reducing pain and scars, accelerating early rehabilitation, and so on, arthroscopic release has increased in popularity compared with open surgery over the years, whereas limiting factors such as the close proximity of the neurovasculature to the working field and narrow working space still have to be faced by the elbow arthroscopist, with an increasing risk of iatrogenic injury with portal creation and operations adjacent to the nerves and vessels. When elbow arthritis occurs concomitantly with cubital tunnel syndrome, osteophytes on the medial ridge of the ole

SUBMITTER: Zhang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11411359 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature