ArticleJournal of anatomy2014
The cubital tunnel: a radiologic and histotopographic study.
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- Intraoperative electrical stimulation promotes the short-term recovery of patients with cubital tunnel syndrome after surgery.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2023Trial
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- Efficacy analysis of small-incision in situ decompression under ultrasound combined with shear-wave elastography in the treatment of ulnar neuropathy at the elbow.International orthopaedics · 2026Article
- Morphological characteristics of the flexor hallucis longus-associated part of Kager's fat pad.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Article
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- Cubital tunnel syndrome: anatomy, pathology, and imaging.Skeletal radiology · 2025Review
- Novel Technique for Ulnar Nerve Transposition at the Elbow: The Neocubital Tunnel.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2024Article
- Characteristics of ulnar neuropathy in baseball players: Focusing on the entrapment point of the ulnar nerve and valgus instability.Shoulder & elbow · 2024Article
- Relationship between Medial Elbow Pain, Flexor Pronator Muscles, and the Ulnar Nerve in Baseball Players Using Ultrasonography.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Morphological Changes of Medial Epicondyle-Olecranon Ligament and Ulnar Nerve in the Cubital Tunnel Syndrome: An Ultrasonic Study.Orthopaedic surgery · 2022Article
- Diffusion tensor imaging in cubital tunnel syndrome.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Osseous morphology of the medial epicondyle: an anatomoradiological study with potential clinical implications.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2021Observational
- Ultrasound-Assisted Precise In Situ Decompression for Cubital Tunnel Syndrome.Orthopaedic surgery · 2021Article
- Contribution to the anatomical nomenclature concerning upper limb anatomy.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2017Article
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- The anterolateral ligament of the knee: a radiologic and histotopographic study.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2016Article
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Abstract
Entrapment of the ulnar nerve at the elbow is the second most common compression neuropathy in the upper limb. The present study evaluates the anatomy of the cubital tunnel. Eighteen upper limbs were analysed in unembalmed cadavers using ultrasound examination in all cases, dissection in nine cases, and microscopic study in nine cases. In all cases, thickening of the fascia at the level of the tunnel was found at dissection. From the microscopic point of view, the ulnar nerve is a multifascicular trunk (mean area of 6.0 ± 1.5 mm(2) ). The roof of the cubital tunnel showed the presence of superimposed layers, corresponding to fascial, tendineous and muscular layers, giving rise to a tri-laminar structure (mean thickness 523 ± 235 μm). This multilayered tissue was hyperechoic (mean thickness 0.9 ± 0.3 mm) on ultrasound imaging. The roof of the cubital tunnel is elastic, formed by a myofascial trilaminar retinaculum. The pathological fusion of these three layers reduces gliding of the ulnar nerve during movements of the elbow joint. This may play a role in producing the symptoms typical of cubital tunnel syndrome. Independent from the surgical technique, decompression should span the ulnar nerve from the triceps brachii muscle to the flexor carpi ulnaris fascia.
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