Factors of unsatisfactory surgical treatment patients with cubital tunnel syndromes

OBJECTIVE: Detection of main factors unsatisfactory surgical treatment patients with cubital tunnel syndrome.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: 121 patients with cubital tunnel syndrome were included in the study. All patients were treated surgically in Polenov Russian Research Institute of Neurosurgery, Almazov National Medical Research Centre, between 2014 and 2018 years. Anterior subcutaneous transposition of the ulnar nerve were carried out to 63 (52,1%) of these patients, submuscular transposition of the ulnar nerve –58 (47,9%) patients with cubital tunnel syndrome. None of represented patients were treated by decompression of ulnar nerve. In 15 cased had die patients’ negative outcomes as pain enhancement, worsening sensitivity and nerve conduction disorders (according electromyography). All surgically treated patients had been operated previously in other medical centers with negative and unsatisfactory outcomes.

RESULTS: Represented analysis enables to reveal the most common complications by surgical treatment patients with cubital tunnel syndrome.

CONCLUSION: The main factors of negative and unsatisfactory outcomes of surgical treatments patients with cubital tunnel syndrome in our study were inobservance of surgical treatment methods und choice functional unfounded surgical treatments.

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