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Surgical treatment of superimposed nerve compressions in hepatitis C neuropathy.

Rosson GD, Rodriguez ED, Dellon AL

Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

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. (c) 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc. Microsurgery, 2007.

Published 17 September 2007 in Microsurgery.
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