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Recurrent carpal tunnel syndrome. Clinical testing indicating incomplete section of the flexor retinaculum
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery University Hospital, K. U. Leuven, Belgium.
Journal of Hand Surgery (Edinburgh, Scotland)
|April 1, 1993
Abstract:
Based on five observations of recurrent carpal tunnel syndrome, a distally incomplete section of the flexor retinaculum can be identified on clinical grounds: the wrist flexion test becomes negative and the tourniquet test still remains positive.