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Pediatric Ulnar Mononeuropathy: Report of 21 Electromyography-Documented Cases and Review of the LiteratureDepartment of Neurology The Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston
Department of Neurology Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA Pediatric ulnar mononeuropathies are the most frequent upper extremity mononeuropathies seen in the electromyography laboratory at The Children's Hospital, Boston. Twenty-one children (12 boys and nine girls) with pediatric ulnar mononeuropathy, aged 5 to 18 years, were seen from 1979 to 1991. The causes included acute trauma in 11 children (52%), compression in five children (24%), entrapment in three children (14%), and indeterminate in two children (10%). The sites of nerve injury included the elbow in 10 children (48%), forearm in three children (14%), wrist in five children (24%), hand in one child (4%), and indeterminate in the remaining two children (10%). Prognosis is more favorable in nontraumatic (83% improved) pediatric ulnar neuropathies than with traumatic lesions (56% improved), with at least a 1-year follow-up. (J Child Neurol 1996; 11: 116-120).
Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 11, No. 2,
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