Carpal tunnel syndrome.

Abstract:

:Suspect this common syndrome in young women who are pregnant or on oral contraceptives, in menopausal women, in patients performing unaccustomed repetitive manual activity, in those on hemodialysis and in those with endocrine abnormalities. Diagnosis requires precise neurologic examination and electrodiagnostic studies. Conservative therapy includes nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents, night-splint immobilization and local steroid injections. Surgical intervention is required for longstanding cases when conservative treatment fails and when muscular atrophy of median innervated thenar muscles develops.

journal_name

Am Fam Physician

authors

Sandzén SC Jr

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1981-11-01 00:00:00

pages

190-204

issue

5

eissn

0002-838X

issn

1532-0650

journal_volume

24

pub_type

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