Open AccessNeurophysiological and clinical aspect of patients with carpal tunnel syndrome
Author(s) -
Vesna Martić,
Predrag Perić
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
acta chirurgica iugoslavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0887
pISSN - 0354-950X
DOI - 10.2298/aci0404087m
Subject(s) - medicine , carpal tunnel syndrome , forearm , differential diagnosis , wrist , elbow , tennis elbow , median nerve , surgery , physical therapy , pathology
In the group of patients with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), besides paresthesias in their fingers, we can see paresthesias in forearm; pain in elbow, sholder and neck, which is a reason for complicated diagnosis of it. This kind of complexnost of differential diagnosis pain in hand, is a reason for complet and strict diagnostic procedure. There are 30 patients with clinical and neurophysological findings for CTS in this paper who made provocative tests. Analising their results we made diagnosis of KTS.