|
Disclaimer:
Whonamedit.com does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.
|
A recommendation:
Hypography is an open community about science and all things related
|
|
|
Wartenberg's disease II
Also known as:
Wartenberg's syndrome
Associated persons:
Robert Wartenberg
Description:
A sensitive polyneuropathy without symptoms of motor loss, involving the superficial branch of the radial nerve, manifested by paraesthesia, dysaesthesia, or hyperaesthesia of the ulnar surface of the thumb. Sometimes associated with cutaneous discoloration in the area of sensory impairment.
See also Wartenberg's syndrome, or carpal tunnel syndrome.
Bibliography:
- B. E. Sprofkin:
Cheiralgia paresthetica – Wartenberg’s disease.
Neurology, Cleveland, Ohio, 1954, 4: 857-862.
|
|
|
