A 77-year-old woman has been having difficulty fastening buttons. She has weakness of the intrinsic muscles of the hands

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A 77-year-old woman has been having difficulty fastening buttons. She has weakness of the intrinsic muscles of the hands

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A 77-year-old woman has been having difficulty fastening buttons. She has weakness of the intrinsic muscles of the hands and loss of sensation in the little fingers \Vhich of the following is the most likely cause of these findings?


A) Chronic lunate subluxation with median nerve compression
B) Compression of the radial nerve in the spiral groove
C) Compression of the ulnar nerve in the carpal tunnel
D) C7-T1 foraminal stenosis
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