Case studies and research on this syndrome
A Case of Bilateral Cervical Ribs with the Special Type of Muscular' Atrophy limited to part only of the Thenar Eminences
THE patient is a woman of 58, who has noticed the wasting of the
thumb muscles for some eight or nine years. For some six years
previously she has complained of numbness in the fingers. The condition has not progressed in any way whatever since 1911, when the
patient first came under observation.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2152455/pdf/procrsmed01435-0012b.pdf
Case of Bilateral Cervical Ribs.
By H. GARDINER, M.B.
In this case, a 17 year girl experienced pain when stretching chords of the piano..her pain persists for long..so when she was examined, bilateral ribs were well developed.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2002976/pdf/procrsmed00952-0020b.pdf
Surgical treatment of cervical rib
Sultanov DD, Usmanov NU, Kurbanov NR, Abdulloev NK
[Surgical treatment of cervical rib syndrome]. [English Abstract, Journal Article]
Angiol Sosud Khir 2011; 17(3):126-30.
All the patients were diagnosed as having a significant decrease in both motor and sensitive nervous conductivity of the radial and median nervesFor treating rudimentary cervical rib, we worked out a combined method of an operative intervention.
Bilateral rudimentary first rib as a cause of thoracic outlet syndromE
This article reviews a case of a patient with bilateral extensively neurologic thoracic outlet syndrome symptoms arising from bilateral rudimentary first ribs. The symptoms, pathologic features, and treatment, as well as an algorithm for working up patients with thoracic outlet syndrome, are discussed. Bilateral transaxillary first rib resection was curative in this patient and is the treatment of choice for either neurologic or vascular manifestations of thoracic outlet syndrome associated with rudimentary first ribs.
MIGRAINE COMPLICATED BY BRACHIAL PLEXOPATHY AS DISPLAYED BY MRI AND MRA: ABERRANT SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY AND CERVICAL RIBS
This article describes migraine without aura since childhood in a patient with bilateral rudimentary cervical ribs. suspected thoracic outlet syndrome was confirmed by high resolution bilateral magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA).
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/91286923/MIGRAINE-COMPLICATED-BY-BRACHIAL-AND-CERVICAL-RIBS
