Table 1
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Summary of randomized controlled trials of surgical interventions for carpal tunnel syndrome |
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| First Author/date |
Country |
Experimental intervention |
Control |
Sample size |
Length of follow-up (weeks) |
blinded assessor |
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|
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| Patients |
hands |
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| Holmgren-Larsson (1985) |
Sweden |
OCTR with epineurotomy. |
OCTR |
48 |
48 |
36 |
|
| Lowry (1988) |
USA |
OCTR with neurolysis |
OCTR |
41 |
50 |
12 |
 |
| Mackinnon l (1991) |
Canada |
OCTR with neurolysis |
OCTR |
59 |
64 |
52 |
|
| Agee (1992) |
USA |
ECTR |
OCTR |
122 |
147 |
26 |
|
| Brown (1993) |
USA |
ECTR |
OCTR |
145 |
169 |
12 |
|
| Erdmann (1994) |
UK |
ECTR |
OCTR |
71 |
105 |
52 |
|
| Foulkes (1994) |
USA |
OCTR with epineurotomy |
OCTR |
33 |
36 |
52 |
|
| Sennwald (1995) |
Switzerland |
ECTR |
OCTR |
47 |
47 |
12 |
|
| Dumontier (1995) |
France |
ECTR |
OCTR |
96 |
96 |
36 |
|
| Jacobsen (1996) |
Sweden |
ECTR |
OCTR |
29 |
32 |
36 |
|
| Leinberry (1997) |
USA |
OCTR with epineurotomy |
OCTR |
44 |
50 |
52 |
|
| Citron (1997) |
UK |
OCTR (L-incision) |
OCTR |
47 |
47 |
52 |
|
| Nakamichi (1997) |
Japan |
OCTR with Ultrasound |
OCTR |
103 |
103 |
104 |
|
| Brüser (1999) |
Germany |
OCTR (short incision.) |
OCTR |
80 |
80 |
6 |
|
| Mackenzie (2000) |
USA |
ECTR |
OCTR |
26 |
36 |
4 |
|
| Trumble (2002) |
USA |
ECTR |
OCTR |
147 |
192 |
52 |
|
| Jugovac (2002) |
Croatia |
OCTR (short incision) |
OCTR |
72 |
72 |
12 |
|
| Shum (2002) |
USA |
OCTR with Flexor tenosyn |
OCTR |
87 |
88 |
52 |
|
| Ferdinand (2002) |
UK |
ECTR |
OCTR |
25 |
50 |
52 |
|
| Borisch (2003) |
Germany |
OCTR with epineurotomy |
OCTR |
273 |
307 |
52 |
|
| Macdermid (2003) |
Canada |
ECTR |
OCTR |
123 |
123 |
52 |
|
| Saw (2003) |
UK |
ECTR |
OCTR |
123 |
123 |
12 |
|
| Helm (2003) |
UK |
'Knifelight' ECTR |
OCTR |
82 |
82 |
6 |
|
| Wong (2003) |
China |
'limited' OCTR |
ECTR |
30 |
60 |
52 |
|
| Battacharya (2004) |
UK |
Knifelight' ECTR |
OCTR |
26 |
52 |
6 |
|
| Dias (2004) |
UK |
Lengthening of flex ret. |
OCTR |
26 |
52 |
25 |
|
| Kharwadkar (2005) |
UK |
OCTR absorbable sutures |
OCTR |
33 |
40 |
12 |
|
| Lorgelly (2005) |
UK |
Minimally invasive OCTR |
OCTR |
194 |
208 |
104 |
|
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| TOTAL n = 28 |
2232 |
2558 |
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ECTR = endoscopic carpal tunnel release; OCTR = Open carpal tunnel release; flex ret. = flexor retinaculum; tenosyn = tenosynovectomy | |||||||
Jerosch-Herold et al. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2006 7:96 doi:10.1186/1471-2474-7-96 |
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