The history of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS)and its treatment begins in 1913,when Marie and Fox [1], after an autopsy of a patient having bilateral atrophy of the thenar muscles, recommended, in such cases, a surgical treatment of nerve decompression dissecting the transverse ligament. In 1930, Learmonth [2]described the first case of surgical release of TCS. © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Cristiani, G., & Marcialis, M. (2007). Traditional technique: Wrist-palm incision. In Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (pp. 115–120). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49008-1_16
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