Clinical images: Carpal tunnel syndrome
β Scribed by David Finger; Paula Vogel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 248 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a clinical entity characterized by pain, paresthesias, and numbness in the distribution of the median nerve with weakness and atrophy of the thenar muscles in advanced cases. It is universally accepted that CTS is the clinical concomitant of compression of the median
I read with interest the superb review/AAEM minimonograph number 26, ''The Electrodiagnosis of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome'' by Stevens. I was puzzled by his statement, ''It is not wise, however, to do multiple different sensitive NCSs in the same patient, because of the risk of a type I error (normal pa
## Abstract ## Background Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a major occupational illness in the US. The Wisconsin Test is a quantitative computerβcontrolled test battery designed for measuring sensory and psychomotor function. Subjects were recruited from industrial jobs at highβrisk for CTS to dete