Ultrasound for diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome: Comparison of different methods to determine median nerve volume and value of power Doppler sonography

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1934-1939

  Dejaco, Christian ^a   Stradner, Martin ^a   Zauner, Dorothea ^a   Seel, Werner ^a   Simmet, Nicole Elisabeth ^a   Klammer, Alexander ^a   Heitzer, Petra ^a   Brickmann, Kerstin ^a   Gretler, Judith ^a   Fürst Moazedi, Florentine C ^a   Thonhofer, Rene ^a,b   Husic, Rusmir ^a   Hermann, Josef ^a   Graninger, Winfried B ^a   Quasthoff, Stefan ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c KRANKENHAUS DER BARMHERZIGEN BRÜDER   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MEDIAN NERVE VOLUME; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NERVE SWELLING; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROPATHY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; WRIST;

EID: 84887418139     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2012-202328     Document Type: Article

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