| Autor: |
Malkoc Melih, Korkmaz Özgür, Oltulu Ismail, Seker Ali, Say Ferhat, Bulbul Ahmet Murat |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />Serbian |
| Rok vydání: |
2014 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, Vol 142, Iss 11-12, Pp 675-679 (2014) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
0370-8179 |
| DOI: |
10.2298/SARH1412675M |
| Popis: |
Introduction. Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most commonly seen peripheral nerve compression syndrome and CTS surgery is the most common surgery done for peripheral nerve compression syndromes. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is a systemic disease with a component of peripheral neuropathy. Objective. We aimed to investigate the effects of type 2 DM on functional results in type 2 DM patients who underwent carpal tunnel surgery. Methods. The study included 39 patients with carpal tunnel syndrome which was confirmed by electromyography. Twenty-one patients did not have DM, 18 patients had type 2 DM that were treated for DM and had regulated blood glucose levels. Assessments were done with the Boston scale. All operations were done by the same surgical team using the same surgical technique. Functional and symptomatic scores between the two groups were compared with the Mann-Whitney U test which is the non-parametric version of the Student’s t test, and 95% confidence interval p |
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