Intramuscular abscess causing radial nerve palsy

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Zainol Fithri, Zairul Nizam (2007) Intramuscular abscess causing radial nerve palsy. Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences, 3 (2). pp. 67-69. ISSN 1675-8544

Abstract

Radial nerve palsy is one of the commonest upper limb compressive neuropathies encountered in orthopaedic practice. More frequently associated with fractures of the humeri, it can also be the result of other atraumatic causes such as the so-called 'Saturday Night Palsy'. In this article, a case is presented where a palsy of the radial nerve was caused by the expansion of an intramuscular abscess in a patient with chronic renal failure. This is a relatively rare cause of radial nerve palsy that resolved progressively after surgical drainage.

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Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Publisher:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia
Keywords:	Intramuscular abscess; Radial nerve palsy
Depositing User:	Umikalthom Abdullah
Date Deposited:	07 Oct 2015 06:20
Last Modified:	23 Oct 2018 00:38
URI:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/32890
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