Anatomical vascular variations are rare causes of carpal tunnel syndrome. An aberrant medial artery is the most common vascular variation, while an aberrant radial artery causing carpal tunnel syndrome is even more rare, with an incidence ranging less than 3%. This article reports a patient with compression of the median nerve at the carpal tunnel by an aberrant superficial branch of the radi...

Acromicric dysplasia is a skeletal dysplasia that is characterized by short stature, short hands and feet, typical facial dysmorphism, normal mental development, and characteristic hand radiology. Carpal tunnel syndrome may be seen in adults with acromicric dysplasia; however, to the authors' knowledge, it has not been reported in pediatric patients. This article describes a 9-year old boy with...

While deviated wrist postures have been linked to the development of carpal tunnel syndrome, the relative contributions of posture-related changes in size, shape and volume of the carpal tunnel contribute to median nerve compression are unclear. The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to reconstruct the carpal tunnel from MRI data in neutral and non-neutral (30 degrees extension, 30 degrees...

anatomical vascular variations are rare causes of carpal tunnel syndrome. an aberrant medial artery is the most common vascular variation, while an aberrant radial artery causing carpal tunnel syndrome is even more rare, with an incidence ranging less than 3%. this article reports a patient with compression of the median nerve at the carpal tunnel by an aberrant superficial branch of the radial...

background: stroke is the first cause of morbidity all around the world. entrapment neuropathies are a known complication of stroke. the objective of this study is to assess the frequency of subclinical carpal tunnel syndrome in the healthy and paretic hands of stroke patients. methods: the authors performed nerve conduction study in the first three days after admission in 39 stroke patients wi...

BACKGROUND Although controversial, recent studies have demonstrated advantages of sonographic techniques in the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). The purpose of this study was to assess the utility of median nerve ultrasonography in the diagnosis of CTS in Iranian patients. METHODS Ninety patents with clinically suspected CTS were studied. Based on gold standard electromyography/nerv...

Purpose: To examine the effect of diverse incision techniques in carpal tunnel decompression on patients’ postoperative pain and degree of satisfaction. Materials and Methods: This study concerned 134 cases of 97 patients who were diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome from January 2010 to May 2012 and underwent carpal tunnel decompression surgery at our hospital. The average follow-up period wa...

Legend: O-CTR= open carpal tunnel release, E-CTR= endoscopic carpal tunnel release, CSA= cross sectional area, MN-UA: distance between the median nerve and ulnar neurovascular bundle, US= ultrasound, SD=standard deviation, p values < 0.05 were considered as statistically significant and are highlighted with bold. Table 1. Overview of the data from the preoperative ultrasound evaluation of the p...