Ratio of the Cross Sectional Area of Median Nerve to Ulnar Nerve in Diagnosing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03033173

Enrollment

Registered

2017-01-26

Start date

2013-01-31

Completion date

2014-12-31

Last updated

2017-01-26

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Conditions

An Innovative Diagnostic Method for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Brief summary

An innovative diagnostic ultrasound method for carpal tunnel syndrome was proposed and compared between carpal tunnel syndrome patients and healthy volunteers.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_CONTROL

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

20 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* CTS patients were required to have subjective symptoms of numbness, tingling pain, or dysesthesia over the median nerve innervated area of the involved hand. * Patients should have positive response in either Tinel's test or Phalen's test during physical examination * Evidence of median neuropathy at wrist level in NCS. * Control subjects should have neither symptoms nor signs of CTS along with no abnormal findings in electrodiagnostic study of the median nerve and the ulnar nerve across the wrist joint.

Exclusion criteria

* Age younger than 20 years old * Electrodiagnostic evidence of ulnar neuropathy at the wrist level * Previous trauma or surgery history of hand * Medical history of hypothyroidism, diabetes mellitus, uremia, rheumatoid arthritis, amyloidosis, and acromegaly * Pregnancy

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Sonographical findings between hands with CTS and healthy hands	Within one week after ultrasound examination

Outcome results