A young patient with symptoms of median nerve compression in carpal tunnel without known risk factors is presented. Ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging confirmed an anatomical variation of the median nerve in carpal tunnel, described in the literature as bifid median nerve. The knowledge of the existence ofbifid median nerve is important in planning surgical decompression of median n...

Objective To demonstrate the importance of recognizing and separating nonmedian nerve-related symptoms from those related to median nerve compression at the carpal tunnel. Methods The records of 80 patients, aged 31-82 years (39 males and 41 females), who had undergone median nerve decompression using open and endoscopic release surgery, were reviewed. Peripheral electrodiagnostic studies wer...

Computed tomography was used to measure the cross-sectional area of the carpal canals in normal controls of both sexes and in women with idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome. The women controls had significantly smaller carpal canals than the men controls both proximally and distally. In the patients both the proximal and distal cross-sectional areas were significantly reduced compared with the wo...

Median nerve compression is a well-known cause of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Yet, reasons why the most common idiopathic form of CTS develops in certain individuals are not well understood. To further understand the compressive mechanisms at work in CTS development, the authors used ultrasonographic imaging of the median nerve to evaluate 2 patients with CTS. Findings were compared to those ...

Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most prevalent nerve compression and can be clinically or surgically treated. In most cases, the first therapeutic alternative is conservative treatment but there is still much controversy regarding the most effective modality of this treatment. In this study, we critically evaluated the options of conservative treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome, aiming to guide ...

Open carpal tunnel release is the commonest surgical treatment of median nerve compression at the wrist. Although successful in most cases, there are well described complications. We report a case of laceration of the deep motor branch of the ulnar nerve at the level of the hook of hamate following a complicated carpal tunnel decompression. Good surgical technique and knowledge of wrist anatomy...

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is sometimes diagnosed post electrical injury. Unfortunately, there is no clear causal connection between electric shock and the electro-diagnostic indications of CTS. One might thus infer that the electro-diagnostic appearance of signal slowing through the carpal tunnel is indicative of electrical injury to the median nerve as opposed to the mechanical compression ...

background: carpal tunnel syndrome (cts) is a compression neuropathy that causes paresthesia, pain or numbness in the territory of median nerve. the aim of this study is to compare the open surgery outcome and patients` satisfaction in carpal tunnel syndrome among diabetic and non-diabetic patients. methods: in a retrospective cohort study from april 2011 to june 2012, patients suffered from ca...

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a commonly encountered entity. The tunnel is a narrow space filled with nerves and tendons. Numbness and paraesthesia over the median nerve territory is classical of nerve compression. Pregnancy, hypothyroidism and diabetes are frequent associations, but sometimes no cause can be ascertained. Local pathologies like ganglia and other soft tissue tumors occasionally resu...

Background: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a common neuropathy condition caused by entrapment of the median nerve. Perineural injection therapy with 5% dextrose or prolotherapy becoming method for treating carpal syndrome. Although it effective, some anatomical variaton nerve could effect outcome in CTS. Case Report: A 43-year-old woman suffered from diurnal, nocturnal numbness and paraesthesi...