Reasons for using swelling ratio in sonographic diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome and a reliable method for its calculation

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 396-402

  Ulaşli, Alper Murat ^a   Duymuş, Mahmut ^a   Nacir, Bariş ^a   Rana Erdem, Hatice ^a   Koşar, Uǧur ^a  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Carpal tunnel syndrome; Median nerve entrapment; Musculoskeletal ultrasonography; Nerve thickness; Swelling ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENDER; HUMAN; LIMB SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; THICKNESS; WRIST;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; EDEMA; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84874255827     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.23528     Document Type: Article

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