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Volume 339:2024 December 31, 1998 Number 27
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Antecubital Phlebotomy Complicated by Lateral Antebrachial Cutaneous Neuropathy

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To the Editor: Immediately on insertion of a needle for antecubital phlebotomy, a 64-year-old woman noted acute pain at the needle site. The pain radiated down the middle of the forearm and was associated with lateral forearm numbness. The pain persisted with some improvement over the next five months. On examination of the right arm, there was a large oval area of moderately impaired light-touch, pinprick, and temperature sensation in the anterolateral forearm in the distribution of the lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve. Tapping the antecubital fossa elicited Tinel's sign with radiation of an electric-shock–like sensation into the forearm. Nerve conduction . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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