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SUBMITTER: Markison RE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3840770 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hand (New York, N.Y.) 20131201 4
Ultrasound (US) is used with a minimally invasive cutting device to perform carpal tunnel release with a 3 mm wrist incision. US localizes tendons, arteries, and median nerve for safe introduction of the device into the wrist. The device is inserted in a blunt configuration under the flexor retinaculum, and a cutting wire is deployed that advances a 0.9-mm needle in the palm. The surgeon releases the flexor retinaculum from the inside out through the two skin punctures. Flexor retinaculum releas ...[more]