The recognition of ulnar artery thrombosis as a disease can be traced back to 1929 when Edgar Allen, [1] a fellow in medicine at the Mayo Clinic, described a diagnostic maneuver (Allen's test) to ...

REPEATED trauma to the hand may result in severe ischemia of the digits. In 1944 Barker and Hines 1 first described arterial occlusion in the fingers associated with repeated occupational injury, and ...

(UPDATED) Compressing the ulnar artery in addition to standard patent hemostasis significantly lowers the risk of radial artery occlusion after a transradial-access coronary intervention, a new study ...

The anterior ulnar recurrent artery is a small blood vessel located in the forearm. The vessel emerges just below the joint of the elbow and between two muscles in the forearm. These muscles are known ...

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Thrombosis of the ulnar artery can be a cause of significant morbidity. Most often a consequence of blunt trauma to the hypothenar eminence of the hand, it may be attributable to one traumatic event ...