Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Lateral Antebrachial Cutaneous Nerve injury induced by phlebotomy. | Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury BioMed Central Case report Lateral Antebrachial Cutaneous Nerve injury induced by phlebotomy S Mansoor Rayegani and Arezoo Azadi Open Access Address Physical medicine rehabilitation Dept. Shohada medical center Shaheed Beheshti medical university Tehran Iran Email S Mansoor Rayegani - rayegani@ Arezoo Azadi - azadi@ Corresponding author Published 14 March 2007 Received 29 January 2007 Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2007 2 6 doi l749-722l-2- Accepted 14 March 2007 6 This article is available from http content 2 l 6 2007 Rayegani and Azadi licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Background Phlebotomy is one of the routine procedures done in medical labs daily. Case presentation A 52 yr woman noted shooting pain and dysesthesia over her right side anterolateral aspect of forearm clinical examination and electrodiagnostic studies showed severe involvement of right side lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve. Conclusion Phlebotomy around lateral aspect of antecubital fossa may cause lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve injury electrodiagnostic studies are needed for definite diagnosis. Background Although different venipuncture injuries have been reported with routine phlebotomies there is little information available on peripheral nerve complications. We present a case of phlebotomy-induced severe injury to the lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve LACN in which the diagnosis was made using nerve conduction study. According to our search and knowledge the use of electrodiagnostic testing for diagnosis of this type of
