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Letter to the editor: scoping review of the palmaris profundus muscle: anatomy of a rare variant and its role in carpal tunnel syndrome

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  1. Isabella G. Damjanovic and Madeline M. Damjanovic contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Education Program in Anatomy, Department of Health Sciences, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street W, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, Canada

    Isabella G. Damjanovic

  2. Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, University of Manitoba, 750 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0W2, Canada

    Madeline M. Damjanovic

  3. Department of Surgery, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, L7L 2V7, Canada

    Parham Daneshvar

  4. Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, 18 Stuart Street, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada

    Logan S.W. Bale

  5. Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Isabella G. Damjanovic

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Conceptualization & design: LSWB Literature review: all authors. First draft of the manuscript: IGD, MMD, LSWB. Critical revision of the manuscript: all authors. Approval of the final version of the manuscript: all authors. Illustration of Fig. 1: IGD, MMD.

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Damjanovic, I.G., Damjanovic, M.M., Daneshvar, P. et al. Letter to the editor: scoping review of the palmaris profundus muscle: anatomy of a rare variant and its role in carpal tunnel syndrome. Neurosurg Rev 47, 219 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10143-024-02449-2

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