Traumatic Rupture of Median Artery an Unusual Cause for Acute Median Nerve Compression

Abstract

Previous case reports of haemorrhage into the carpal tunnel causing median nerve compression were extraneural and usually associated with a blood dyscrasia although Watson Jones reported one due to direct trauma and Hayden recorded spontaneous intraneural haemorrhage not associated with trauma. We describe a case of intraneural haemorrhage, involving the median nerve in the carpal tunnel, due to indirect trauma and not associated with a blood dyscrasia. The condition required intraneural decompression to obtain relief.