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Prognostic ability of a good outcome to carpal tunnel release for decompression surgery in the lower extremity.

Maloney CT, Dellon AL, Heller C, Olson JR

The Institute for Plastic Surgery and Peripheral Nerve Surgery, 3170 N. Swan Road, Tucson, Arizona 85712, USA. chrismaloney2@yahoo.com

For years, patients who were treated successfully with carpal tunnel release were told there was nothing that could be done about their lower extremity symptoms. Now that lower extremity nerve decompression has been accepted as an option to treat appropriate patients, the authors looked for correlations between a successful outcome with carpal tunnel syndrome and its predictive value of success for lower extremity nerve decompression. Data from a recent study demonstrate that a good result from upper extremity peripheral nerve surgery predicts the outcome for lower extremity peripheral nerve surgery in 88% of patients, and is, therefore, information valuable for prognosis and clinical decision-making.

Published 8 September 2006 in Clin Podiatr Med Surg, 23(3): 559-67.
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