title: Terminal latency index in the carpal tunnel syndrome.
abstract: Our retrospective study assessed the validity of the median motor terminal latency index (m-TLI) in evaluation of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). In patients deemed most likely to have CTS, the mean m-TLI was markedly reduced at 0.25 while the controls had a mean m-TLI of 0.44. The m-TLI was abnormal in all of the "probable CTS" hands and in none of the control hands. The m-TLI is a sensitive adjunctive electrophysiologic measure for the presence of CTS.
authors.affiliation: St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Boston, MA 02135, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Simovic
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Weinberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002349:Carpal Tunnel Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008475:Median Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009411:Nerve Endings / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009431:Neural Conduction; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011930:Reaction Time; D012016:Reference Values; D012189:Retrospective Studies