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Surgical treatment of superimposed nerve compressions in hepatitis C neuropathy
Author(s) -
Rosson Gedge D.,
Rodriguez Eduardo D.,
Dellon A. Lee
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
microsurgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.031
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1098-2752
pISSN - 0738-1085
DOI - 10.1002/micr.20409
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , nerve repair , peripheral nerve , anatomy
The plastic surgeon's usual involvement in patients with hepatitis C is most frequently limited to an inner city population with hand and forearm abscesses from intravenous drug use or to incidences of needle‐stick injury in the operating room when the patient is hepatitis C positive. Hand surgeons and peripheral nerve surgeons often treat patients with underlying neuropathies who have superimposed overlying nerve compressions such as carpal tunnel syndrome. We have applied this experience to a patient with underlying peripheral neuropathy associated with Hepatitis C and clinical evidence of overlying lower extremity nerve compressions. We believe that she is the first successful surgical treatment of peripheral nerve compressions in a patient with hepatitis C—associated neuropathy, documented by noninvasive neurosensory testing. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. Microsurgery, 2007.