Doctors at Northwestern Medicine are offering a surgical solution to an often misdiagnosed problem called thoracic outlet syndrome, which can cause numbness and tingling from a patient’s shoulder down to their fingertips.
Over 15 years, Donna Durkin, 39, had seen several doctors to try to figure out what was causing light tingling in all 10 of her fingers, when she read about thoracic outlet syndrome online last year.
"You have your collar bone and your first rib, and in between them there is a bundle of nerves and an artery that feed through those two bones and those nerves can get pinched," said Durkin. Sign up for NBC Chicago newsletters. Upon reading the symptoms, the mom and wife from Lake in the Hills sought out Dr. Andrew Arndt, a thoracic surgeon at Northwestern Medicine.
"It takes awhile for someone to whittle down the other diagnosis to possible thoracic outlet syndrome. It is heavily under-recognized," Dr. Arndt said. After numerous tests to confirm the diagnosis, Dr. Arndt's solution to Donna was to surgically remove her top rib.
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