Bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome revealing an acromegaly: a case report

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common neuropathy in acromegalic patients and is often the initial complaint. However, the diagnosis of acromegaly is often made years after the diagnosis of CTS. In our case report, we describe the case of a patient in whom acromegaly was discovered after pr...

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Autores principales: Toulali, Fatima, Srifi, Hajar, Talbi, Dounia, Guerboub, Ahmed Anas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10362649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37484588
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2023.44.186.39745
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author Toulali, Fatima
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description Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common neuropathy in acromegalic patients and is often the initial complaint. However, the diagnosis of acromegaly is often made years after the diagnosis of CTS. In our case report, we describe the case of a patient in whom acromegaly was discovered after presenting bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome, without having acrofacial signs. Increased awareness of signs of acromegaly in patients with CTS might help to shorten the diagnostic delay in acromegaly.
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spelling pubmed-103626492023-07-23 Bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome revealing an acromegaly: a case report Toulali, Fatima Srifi, Hajar Talbi, Dounia Guerboub, Ahmed Anas Pan Afr Med J Case Report Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common neuropathy in acromegalic patients and is often the initial complaint. However, the diagnosis of acromegaly is often made years after the diagnosis of CTS. In our case report, we describe the case of a patient in whom acromegaly was discovered after presenting bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome, without having acrofacial signs. Increased awareness of signs of acromegaly in patients with CTS might help to shorten the diagnostic delay in acromegaly. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2023-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10362649/ /pubmed/37484588 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2023.44.186.39745 Text en Copyright: Fatima Toulali et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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