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Idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome: histologic study of flexor tendon synovium
F Schuind1, M Ventura, J L Pasteels
1Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Hôpital Erasme, Cliniques Universitaires de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
The Journal of Hand Surgery
|May 1, 1990
Abstract:
The histologic lesions in flexor tendon synovium of 21 patients seen initially with idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome have been studied. The findings were similar in all biopsy specimens and were typical of a connective tissue undergoing degeneration under repeated mechanical stresses.