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Can we use thermal imaging to evaluate the effects of carpal tunnel syndrome surgical decompression?

Research is intended to verify if thermal imaging can be used in diagnosing and monitoring the carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). This disease is not easy to diagnose using traditional methods. Also, the difficulties in monitoring carpal tunnel surgery effects necessitate new, noninvasive method, which g...

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Autores principales: Baic, Agnieszka, Kasprzyk, Teresa, Rżany, Michał, Stanek, Agata, Sieroń, Karolina, Suszyński, Krzysztof, Marcol, Wiesław, Cholewka, Armand
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5626262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28953619
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000007982
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author Baic, Agnieszka
Kasprzyk, Teresa
Rżany, Michał
Stanek, Agata
Sieroń, Karolina
Suszyński, Krzysztof
Marcol, Wiesław
Cholewka, Armand
author_facet Baic, Agnieszka
Kasprzyk, Teresa
Rżany, Michał
Stanek, Agata
Sieroń, Karolina
Suszyński, Krzysztof
Marcol, Wiesław
Cholewka, Armand
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description Research is intended to verify if thermal imaging can be used in diagnosing and monitoring the carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). This disease is not easy to diagnose using traditional methods. Also, the difficulties in monitoring carpal tunnel surgery effects necessitate new, noninvasive method, which gives more information. The research group consists of 15 patients with CTS and control group of healthy people. All patients who were examined before surgery were also tested 4 weeks after surgery, to check the effects of treatment. In addition a lot of our patients had or will have open carpel tunnel release surgery. Diagnosis of CTS was performed by thermal imaging in both hands from phalanges to the area of the wrist on the external and palmar side of the palm. Using infrared (IR) camera one can observe high temperature gradient on hand-tested areas and these differences prove the diagnosis. Moreover patients after surgery have better temperature distribution and it was closer to control group. Results prove that surgery is the best, and currently, the only method to treat CTS. Thermal imaging may be helpful in diagnosing CTS.
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spelling pubmed-56262622017-10-11 Can we use thermal imaging to evaluate the effects of carpal tunnel syndrome surgical decompression? Baic, Agnieszka Kasprzyk, Teresa Rżany, Michał Stanek, Agata Sieroń, Karolina Suszyński, Krzysztof Marcol, Wiesław Cholewka, Armand Medicine (Baltimore) 4100 Research is intended to verify if thermal imaging can be used in diagnosing and monitoring the carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). This disease is not easy to diagnose using traditional methods. Also, the difficulties in monitoring carpal tunnel surgery effects necessitate new, noninvasive method, which gives more information. The research group consists of 15 patients with CTS and control group of healthy people. All patients who were examined before surgery were also tested 4 weeks after surgery, to check the effects of treatment. In addition a lot of our patients had or will have open carpel tunnel release surgery. Diagnosis of CTS was performed by thermal imaging in both hands from phalanges to the area of the wrist on the external and palmar side of the palm. Using infrared (IR) camera one can observe high temperature gradient on hand-tested areas and these differences prove the diagnosis. Moreover patients after surgery have better temperature distribution and it was closer to control group. Results prove that surgery is the best, and currently, the only method to treat CTS. Thermal imaging may be helpful in diagnosing CTS. Wolters Kluwer Health 2017-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5626262/ /pubmed/28953619 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000007982 Text en Copyright © 2017 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License 4.0 (CCBY-NC), where it is permissible to download, share, remix, transform, and buildup the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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Baic, Agnieszka
Kasprzyk, Teresa
Rżany, Michał
Stanek, Agata
Sieroń, Karolina
Suszyński, Krzysztof
Marcol, Wiesław
Cholewka, Armand
Can we use thermal imaging to evaluate the effects of carpal tunnel syndrome surgical decompression?
title Can we use thermal imaging to evaluate the effects of carpal tunnel syndrome surgical decompression?
title_full Can we use thermal imaging to evaluate the effects of carpal tunnel syndrome surgical decompression?
title_fullStr Can we use thermal imaging to evaluate the effects of carpal tunnel syndrome surgical decompression?
title_full_unstemmed Can we use thermal imaging to evaluate the effects of carpal tunnel syndrome surgical decompression?
title_short Can we use thermal imaging to evaluate the effects of carpal tunnel syndrome surgical decompression?
title_sort can we use thermal imaging to evaluate the effects of carpal tunnel syndrome surgical decompression?
topic 4100
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5626262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28953619
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000007982
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