Prospective randomized controlled study comparing simple decompression versus anterior subcutaneous transposition for idiopathic neuropathy of the ulnar nerve at the elbow: Part 1

Neurosurgery

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 522-529

  Bartels, Ronald H M A ^a   Verhagen, Wim I M ^b   Van Der Wilt, Gert Jan ^a   Meulstee, Jan ^b   Van Rossum, Leo G M ^a   Grotenhuis, J André ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decompression; Randomized controlled trial; Transposition; Ulnar nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR SUBCUTANEOUS TRANSPOSITION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBITAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELBOW; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUBLUXATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNAR NERVE; ULNAR NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES;

EID: 14644444145     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000154131.01167.03     Document Type: Article

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