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

Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation0 sites74 target enrollmentJanuary 2013

ConditionsAn Innovative Diagnostic Method for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Overview

Phase: Not Applicable
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: An Innovative Diagnostic Method for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Sponsor: Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation
Enrollment: 74
Primary Endpoint: Sonographical findings between hands with CTS and healthy hands
Status: Completed
Last Updated: 9 years ago

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Similar Trials

Overview

Brief Summary

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

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

January 2013

End Date

December 2014

Last Updated

9 years ago

Study Type

Observational

Sex

All

Investigators

Sponsor

Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation

Responsible Party

Sponsor

Eligibility Criteria

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