Carpal and Cubital Tunnel Syndrome: Who Gets Surgery?
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[Carpal tunnel syndrome & cubital tunnel syndrome].
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and cubital tunnel syndrome (Cub.TS) are the two most common entrapment syndromes. Development of several validated outcome assessments have allowed conducting large scale epidemiological studies worldwide for the last decade regarding CTS, which have been providing reliable basic information. These studies have shown that CTS is more common than had been expected. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0009-921X
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-009-1210-2