REVISION SURGERY AFTER CARPAL TUNNEL RELEASE – H Y

nde recurrent symptoms in 200 patients who underwent at a single institution. In 108 cases, the flexor ad eth me no a chn n V rele and has become one of the most common and rewarding operations performed on the hand (Gelbermann et al., tions and t 3 % to 19% to 12 % fo et al., 19 Linscheid, The pu reasons fo recurrent PATIENT with persisting or recurrent symptoms after primary ences were seen between those with persisting symptoms n. Symp-ere more onths for pronator tlet syn-than one e patient viewed to dications than one important. In the same period of time, 2350 patients ARTICLE IN PRESSfirmatory electrophysiological examination 15 days to 12 years) had elapsedCTR. All recurrences were treated using the open technique of carpal tunnel decompression. All revision surgeries were performed by skilled hand surgeons. Prior to the second operation at our hospital, all patients were interviewed and examined thoroughly and also had con underwent primary division of the flexor retinaculum in our hospital, of which two needed revision. These two patients are included in this series. One hundred and ninety-eight patients in this series underwent the first operation elsewhere. An average time of 996 days (from between the first 68During a 26 month period, between January 2001 and March 2003, we operated on 200 wrists of 200 patients problem was present, e.g. incomplete release, scarring and synovitis, we chose the one we thought was the mostreatment failures have been shown to occur in in large series, requiring re-exploration in up r a variety of causes (Bande et al., 1994; Botte 96; Concanoon et al., 2000; Langloh an