Endoscopic carpal tunnel
The advantages and disadvantages of endoscopic compared with open carpal tunnelreleasearecontroversial. We have performed a prospective, randomised, blinded assessment in a district general hospital in order to determine if there was any demonstrable advantage in undertaking either technique. Twenty-five patients with confirmed bilateral idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome were randomised to undergo endoscopic
We describe a safe and easy percutaneous technique for
In a previous study the prevalence of Raynaud’s phenomenon (RP) in patients with idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) was found to be 60% which is much higher than that in the general population. We undertook a further study of the same cohort of patients have both CTS and RP and who had an open