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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome pp 307–318Cite as

Secondary Carpal Tunnel Surgery

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Carpal tunnel syndrome was first described by Sir James Paget [1]in 1854.The first carpal tunnel release is credited in most historical reviews to Learmonth in 1929 for a patient with posttraumatic nerve compression [2].However,a review of the Mayo Clinic records by Amadio [3] indicates that the first surgical release of the trans verse carpal ligament for median nerve compression was done by Drs.Herbert Galloway and Andrew Mackinnon in Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada 1924,also for a patient with a posttraumatic neuropathy.

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Tung, T.H.H., Mackinnon, S.E. (2007). Secondary Carpal Tunnel Surgery. In: Luchetti, R., Amadio, P. (eds) Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49008-1_40

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