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Carpal tunnel syndrome: age, nerve conduction severity and duration of symptomatology
| Resumo: | Median sensory and motor distal latencies (SDL/MDL) were correlated with age and duration of symptomatology in 1498 carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) patients (17-90 years old, 87.6% female). Patients were distributed in four groups according to distal latencies severity. There was an increase in age as long as SDL/MDL became more severe, ranging from 47.5 to 67 years old (mild to severe-absence potentials in both hands groups, respectively). There was a less dramatic increase in duration of complaints as long as SDL/MDL became more severe, ranging from 12 to 30.7 months (mild to severe-absence potentials in both hands groups, respectively). Aging correlates more positively than duration of complaints with severity of SDL/MDL in CTS. The effects of increasing median blockage in CTS are more severe as long as patients become older regardless duration of symptomatology. |
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| Autores principais: | KOUYOUMDJIAN,JOAO ARIS |
| Assunto: | carpal tunnel syndrome median nerve entrapment neuropathy compression neuropathy nerve conduction study |
| Ano: | 1999 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | IBICT |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Oasisbr |
| Resumo: | Median sensory and motor distal latencies (SDL/MDL) were correlated with age and duration of symptomatology in 1498 carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) patients (17-90 years old, 87.6% female). Patients were distributed in four groups according to distal latencies severity. There was an increase in age as long as SDL/MDL became more severe, ranging from 47.5 to 67 years old (mild to severe-absence potentials in both hands groups, respectively). There was a less dramatic increase in duration of complaints as long as SDL/MDL became more severe, ranging from 12 to 30.7 months (mild to severe-absence potentials in both hands groups, respectively). Aging correlates more positively than duration of complaints with severity of SDL/MDL in CTS. The effects of increasing median blockage in CTS are more severe as long as patients become older regardless duration of symptomatology. |
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