Carpal tunnel syndrome assessment with US: Value of additional cross-sectional area measurements of the median nerve in patients versus healthy volunteers

Radiology

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 171-177

  Klauser, Andrea S ^a   Halpern, Ethan J ^c   De Zordo, Tobias ^a   Feuchtner, Gudrun M ^a   Arora, Rohit ^a   Gruber, Johann ^b   Martinoli, Carlo ^d   Löscher, Wolfgang N ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE COMPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; WRIST; ADOLESCENT; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CONDUCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149331104     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2501080397     Document Type: Article

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