ReviewNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2017
Tarsal tunnel syndrome: still more opinions than evidence. Status of the art.
Review in Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 73 citations in OpenAlex.
- Preoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings in Patients with Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome and Postoperative Outcomes.Neurologia medico-chirurgica · 2025Article
- Overview of nerve entrapment syndromes in the foot and ankle.International orthopaedics · 2025Review
- The management of tarsal tunnel syndrome: A scoping review.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma · 2024Article
- Research status of facial nerve repair.Regenerative therapy · 2023Review
- An anatomical approach to the tarsal tunnel syndrome: what can ankle's medial side anatomy reveal to us?Journal of foot and ankle research · 2023Article
- Impact of Dynamic Change of Meandering of Parallel Artery to the Idiopathic Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome.Neurologia medico-chirurgica · 2023Article
- Patient Satisfaction with Surgery for Tarsal- and Carpal- Tunnel Syndrome - Comparative Study.Neurologia medico-chirurgica · 2023Article
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings in Patients with Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome.Neurologia medico-chirurgica · 2022Article
- An Update on Posterior Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome.Orthopedic reviews · 2022Review
- The Course of Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome after Ultrasound-Guided Injections.Orthopedic reviews · 2022Article
- Ultrasound-Guided Near-Nerve Needle Sensory Technique for the Diagnosis of Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Neuropathic Pain in the Elderly.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Peripheral Neuropathies Seen by Ultrasound: A Literature Analysis through Lexical Evaluation, Geographical Assessment and Graph Theory.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Tarsal tunnel syndrome secondary to osteochondroma of the calcaneus: a case report.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2020Article
- Acute compressive radial neuropathy and wrist drop due to the repetitive overuse of the arm.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2020Article
- Results of ultrasound-guided release of tarsal tunnel syndrome: a review of 81 cases with a minimum follow-up of 18 months.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2020Article
- Tarsal tunnel syndrome in the mucopolysaccharidoses: A case series and literature review.JIMD reports · 2019Article
- Peripheral nerve regeneration and intraneural revascularization.Neural regeneration research · 2019Review
- Ulnar neuropathy at wrist: entrapment at a very "congested" site.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2018Review
- Estimation of ultrasound reference values for the lower limb peripheral nerves in adults: A cross-sectional study.Medicine · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Tarsal tunnel syndrome is an entrapment neuropathy of the posterior tibial nerve or its terminal branches within its fibro-osseous tunnel beneath the flexor retinaculum on the medial side of the ankle. The condition is frequently underdiagnosed leading to controversies regarding its epidemiology and to an intense debate in the literature. With the advent of nerve imaging techniques, the diagnostic confirmation and the etiological identification have become more accurate. However, management of this entrapment neuropathy remains challenging because of many intervention strategies but limited robust evidence. Uncertainties still exist about the best conservative treatment, timing of surgical intervention, and best surgical approach. In the attempt to clarify these aspects and to provide the reader some understanding of the status of the art, we have reviewed the published literature on this controversial condition.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.