Does a carpal tunnel syndrome predict an underlying disease?

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 635-637

  De Rijk, Maarten C ^a,c   Vermeij, Frederique H ^b   Suntjens, Maartje ^a   Van Doorn, Pieter A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SINT FRANCISCUS GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

^c Catharina ziekenhuis ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GOUT; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERODERMA; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROTROPIN;

EID: 34249661626     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.102145     Document Type: Article

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