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Treatment of Painful Neuromas of the Hand and Wrist by Relocation into the Pronator Quadratus Muscle

M. K. SOOD
D. ELLIOT

From the Hand Surgery Department, St Andrew’s Centre for Plastic Surgery, Billericay, UK

Correspondence: D. Elliot MA FRCS, St Andrew’s Centre for Plastic Surgery, Stock Road, Billericay, Essex CM12 OBL, UK.

Thirteen painful end-neuromas of nerves of the palm and the dorsum of the hand were treated by resection of the neuroma and relocation of the nerve ends into the pronator quadratus muscle proximal to the wrist in ten patients. The effectiveness of this treatment was assessed by measurement of changes in level of spontaneous pain, pain on pressure, pain on movement and hyperaesthesia at the original site and at the site to which the nerve was relocated. Subjective comments on changes of hand function and ability to return to work were also recorded. All ten patients reported total relief or marked improvement in each of the four modalities of pain assessed. In the five patients in whom the neuromas were the only significant cause of hand dysf.unction, there was sufficient improvement in hand function to allow the patients to return to work. In this series, the pronator quardratus muscle has proved a suitable site for relocation of sensory nerve ends after resection of painful neuromas in the proximal part of the hand and wrist.

Journal of Hand Surgery (British and European Volume), Vol. 23, No. 2, 214-219 (1998)
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-7681(98)80177-0
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