ArticleBMC musculoskeletal disorders2019
Diagnostic potential of ultrasound in carpal tunnel syndrome with different etiologies: correlation of sonographic median nerve measures with electrodiagnostic severity.
Article in BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06045013 (Comparison of the Efficacy Between Ultrasound-guided Dextrose Injection Versus Dextrose With Methylprednisolone Injection in Patients With Carpal Tunnel Syndrome), which is not on this map. Cited by 27 papers.
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Comparison of the Efficacy Between Ultrasound-guided Dextrose Injection Versus Dextrose With Methylprednisolone Injection in Patients With Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: a Prospective, Randomized Double-blind Clinical Trial.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Ultrasound Measurements of the Median Nerve at the Distal Wrist Crease Correlate With Electrodiagnostic Studies.Hand (New York, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- Median nerve ultrasound cross sectional area and wrist-to-forearm ratio in relation to carpal tunnel syndrome related axonal damage and patient age.Clinical neurophysiology practice · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of ultrasound and median nerve gliding with and without shock-wave therapy in patients with moderate carpal tunnel syndrome.Journal of physical therapy science · 2022Article
- Mega Nerves: Factors Associated with Large Median Nerves on Ultrasound of the Carpal Tunnel.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2022Article
- Difference and ratio of the cross-sectional area of median nerve at the carpal tunnel and the pronator quadratus muscle in diagnosing carpal tunnel syndrome: a cross-sectional study.Annals of translational medicine · 2022Article
- Comprehensive Assessment of Ultrasound's Role in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Reference to Electromyography.Cureus · 2021Article
- The value of sonographic quantitative parameters in the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome in the Vietnamese population.The Journal of international medical research · 2021Article
- Application of digital infrared thermography for carpal tunnel syndrome evaluation.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Hand-Wrist Disorders in Chainsaw Operators: A Follow-Up Study in a Group of Italian Loggers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundCarpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the commonest entrapment neuropathy. The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy and validity of high resolution musculoskeletal ultrasound (US) in the diagnosis of CTS in the Saudi population.
methodsSixty patients were diagnosed clinically to have CTS involving 89 wrists that were confirmed by neurophysiologic studies. Each affected wrist was characterized as idiopathic or associated with either diabetes mellitus or hypothyroidism and were assigned a severity grade based on results of neurophysiologic studies. Seventy-six healthy wrists from fifty age, sex and BMI matched healthy subjects were included in the control group. High resolution ultrasound (US) was performed to assess median nerve cross sectional area distal (CSAd) at the entry to the carpal tunnel and proximally (CSAp) at the level of pronator quadratus muscle with a further calculation of their difference (ΔCSA) and their mean average or CSAd+CSAp/2 (CSApd).
resultsThere was a significant difference between both groups regarding mean ± SD of CSAd, CSAp, ∆CSA, and CSApd (p = 0.0001). A positive significant correlation was also found between the CSAd, ∆ CSA and the CSApd measurements with neurophysiologic severity grade of CTS (P = 0.001). A ∆CSA threshold of 2.5 mm
conclusionHigh resolution ultrasound is a valid and accurate diagnostic modality in carpal tunnel syndrome and correlated to CTS severity. A ∆CSA greater than 2.5 mm
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