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The carpal tunnel syndrome. Anatomo-clinical correlations
I Iob1, C Battaggia, L Rossetto
1Dipartimento Scienze Neurologiche e Psichiatriche Padova School of Medicine, University of Padova, Padova (Italy). ivoiob@ux1.unipd.it
Neuro-Chirurgie
|October 4, 2000
Abstract:
We review a series of 1,280 operated cases of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), with an unexpected high frequency of transverse muscular fibers within the carpal canal (11%), particularly in a group of young male patients under 30 years of age. This abnormal presence of muscle fibers could explain the early development of CTS in young male workers.