In an action to recover damages for medical malpractice and lack of informed consent, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Jones, J.), dated March 3, 2006, which granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
Ordered that the order is modified, on the law, by deleting the provision thereof granting that branch of the defendant’s motion which was to dismiss the plaintiffs cause of action alleging medical malpractice and substituting therefor a provision denying that branch of the motion; as so modified, the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The defendant performed a nerve decompression and neurolysis procedure upon the plaintiff to relieve symptoms such as pain and weakness in her left arm and hand. Following the surgery, the plaintiff was unable to extend three of the fingers on her left hand and was diagnosed with nerve damage. In this action alleging, inter alia, medical malpractice, the defendant’s motion for summary judgment was granted. We modify.
As for the plaintiffs lack of informed consent cause of action, the defendant established his prima facie entitlement to summary judgment by demonstrating that the plaintiff signed a consent form after being informed of the risks, benefits, and alternatives of the procedure (see Ericson v Palleschi, 23 AD3d 608, 610 [2005]). The plaintiff failed to submit an affirmation from a medical expert to raise a triable issue of fact. Miller, J.P., Mastro, Krausman and Carni, JJ., concur.