Comparison of Interpolation Methods in the Diagnosis of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Background:Diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome is based on clinical symptoms, examination findings, and electrodiagnostic studies. For carpal tunnel syndrome, the most useful of these are nerve conduction studies. However, nerve conduction studie can result in ambiguous or false-negative results, pa...
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| description | Background:Diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome is based on clinical symptoms, examination findings, and electrodiagnostic studies. For carpal tunnel syndrome, the most useful of these are nerve conduction studies. However, nerve conduction studie can result in ambiguous or false-negative results, particularly for mild carpal tunnel syndrome. Increasing the number of nerve conduction studie tests improves accuracy but also increases time, cost, and discomfort. To improve accuracy without additional testing, the terminal latency index and residual latency are additional calculations that can be performed using the minimum number of tests. Recently, the median sensory-ulnar motor latency difference was devised as another way to improve diagnostic accuracy for mild carpal tunnel syndrome.Aims:The median sensory-ulnar motor latency difference, terminal latency index, and residual latency were compared for diagnostic accuracy according to severity of carpal tunnel syndrome.Study Design:Diagnostic accuracy study.Methods:A total of 657 subjects were retrospectively enrolled. The carpal tunnel syndrome group consisted of 546 subjects with carpal tunnel syndrome according to nerve conduction studie (all severities). The control group consisted of 121 subjects with no hand symptoms and normal nerve conduction studie. All statistical analyses were performed using SAS v9.4. Means were compared using one-way ANOVA with the Bonferroni adjustment. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value were compared, including receiver operating characteristic curve analysis.Results:For mild carpal tunnel syndrome, the median sensory-ulnar motor latency difference showed higher specificity and positive predictive value rates (0.967 and 0.957, respectively) than terminal latency index (0.603 and 0.769, respectively) and residual latency (0.818 and 0.858, respectively). The area under the receiver operating characteristic was highest for the median sensory-ulnar motor latency difference (0.889), followed by the residual latency (0.829), and lastly the terminal latency index (0.762). Differences were statistically significant (median sensory-ulnar motor latency difference being the most accurate). For moderate carpal tunnel syndrome, sensitivity and specificity rates of residual latency (0.989 and 1.000) and terminal latency index (0.983 and 0.975) were higher than those for median sensory-ulnar motor latency difference (0.866 and 0.958). Differences in area under the receiver operating characteristic curve were not significantly significant, but median sensory-ulnar motor latency difference sensitivity was lower. For severe carpal tunnel syndrome, residual latency yielded 1.000 sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and area beneath the receiver operating characteristic curve. Differences in area under the receiver operating characteristic curve were not significantly different.Conclusion:The median sensory-ulnar motor latency difference is the best calculated parameter for diagnosing mild carpal tunnel syndrome. It requires only a simple calculation and no additional testing. Residual latency and the terminal latency index are also useful in diagnosing mild to moderate carpal tunnel syndrome. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-af803fe0840b40f9a44f64837d6be0c22023-02-15T16:07:39ZengGalenos Publishing HouseBalkan Medical Journal2146-31232146-31312018-09-0135537838310.4274/balkanmedj.2017.131413049054Comparison of Interpolation Methods in the Diagnosis of Carpal Tunnel SyndromeVeysel Alcan0Murat Zinnuroğlu1Gülçin Kaymak Karataş2Elliot Bodofsky3 Dikmen Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, Ankara, Turkey Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Gazi University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Gazi University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, New Jersey, USA Background:Diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome is based on clinical symptoms, examination findings, and electrodiagnostic studies. For carpal tunnel syndrome, the most useful of these are nerve conduction studies. However, nerve conduction studie can result in ambiguous or false-negative results, particularly for mild carpal tunnel syndrome. Increasing the number of nerve conduction studie tests improves accuracy but also increases time, cost, and discomfort. To improve accuracy without additional testing, the terminal latency index and residual latency are additional calculations that can be performed using the minimum number of tests. Recently, the median sensory-ulnar motor latency difference was devised as another way to improve diagnostic accuracy for mild carpal tunnel syndrome.Aims:The median sensory-ulnar motor latency difference, terminal latency index, and residual latency were compared for diagnostic accuracy according to severity of carpal tunnel syndrome.Study Design:Diagnostic accuracy study.Methods:A total of 657 subjects were retrospectively enrolled. The carpal tunnel syndrome group consisted of 546 subjects with carpal tunnel syndrome according to nerve conduction studie (all severities). The control group consisted of 121 subjects with no hand symptoms and normal nerve conduction studie. All statistical analyses were performed using SAS v9.4. Means were compared using one-way ANOVA with the Bonferroni adjustment. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value were compared, including receiver operating characteristic curve analysis.Results:For mild carpal tunnel syndrome, the median sensory-ulnar motor latency difference showed higher specificity and positive predictive value rates (0.967 and 0.957, respectively) than terminal latency index (0.603 and 0.769, respectively) and residual latency (0.818 and 0.858, respectively). The area under the receiver operating characteristic was highest for the median sensory-ulnar motor latency difference (0.889), followed by the residual latency (0.829), and lastly the terminal latency index (0.762). Differences were statistically significant (median sensory-ulnar motor latency difference being the most accurate). For moderate carpal tunnel syndrome, sensitivity and specificity rates of residual latency (0.989 and 1.000) and terminal latency index (0.983 and 0.975) were higher than those for median sensory-ulnar motor latency difference (0.866 and 0.958). Differences in area under the receiver operating characteristic curve were not significantly significant, but median sensory-ulnar motor latency difference sensitivity was lower. For severe carpal tunnel syndrome, residual latency yielded 1.000 sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and area beneath the receiver operating characteristic curve. Differences in area under the receiver operating characteristic curve were not significantly different.Conclusion:The median sensory-ulnar motor latency difference is the best calculated parameter for diagnosing mild carpal tunnel syndrome. It requires only a simple calculation and no additional testing. Residual latency and the terminal latency index are also useful in diagnosing mild to moderate carpal tunnel syndrome. http://balkanmedicaljournal.org/archives/archive-detail/article-preview/comparison-of-nterpolation-methods-in-the-diagnosi/19703 Carpal tunnel syndromediagnosisinterpolationneural conduction |
| spellingShingle | Veysel Alcan Murat Zinnuroğlu Gülçin Kaymak Karataş Elliot Bodofsky Comparison of Interpolation Methods in the Diagnosis of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Balkan Medical Journal Carpal tunnel syndrome diagnosis interpolation neural conduction |
| title | Comparison of Interpolation Methods in the Diagnosis of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome |
| title_full | Comparison of Interpolation Methods in the Diagnosis of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome |
| title_fullStr | Comparison of Interpolation Methods in the Diagnosis of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparison of Interpolation Methods in the Diagnosis of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome |
| title_short | Comparison of Interpolation Methods in the Diagnosis of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome |
| title_sort | comparison of interpolation methods in the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome |
| topic | Carpal tunnel syndrome diagnosis interpolation neural conduction |
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