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Screening of Axonal Degeneration in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Using Ultrasonography and Nerve Conduction Studies
Published on: January 11, 2019
[Narrow tunnel and compression syndromes of the hand]
1Chirurgischen Abteilung--Arbeitsbereich Handchirurgie der Funktionseinheit Kreiskrankenhaus/Kreispoliklinik Güstrow.
Abstract:
In osteofibrous channels of the hand a disproportion of capacity and contents may cause either a restriction of the gliding of the tendon or a lesion of nerves by pressure. During a 5 year period 362 narrow pass and compression syndromes were operated. Trigger fingers were most frequent with 224 cases, followed by 85 de Quervain's diseases, 49 carpal tunnel syndromes and 4 ulnar nerve compression syndromes. These diseases can be operated in a bloodless field and under regional anaesthesia, mostly under outpatient conditions. The manifold reasons of compression syndromes call for differentiated operative procedures.
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