title: Median nerve (anatomical variations) and carpal tunel syndrome - revisited.
abstract: Carpal tunnel syndrome belongs to the most common causative factors of surgical interventions in the wrist region. Anatomy of carpal tunnel and median nerve is a subject of current revision. Authors paid attention to etiology of the syndrome based on review of literature and their own anatomical studies. They remind basic knowledge on the median nerve and indicate that only based on number of dissections a good orthopedic surgeon may acquire experience necessary to perform procedures in a most appropriate way.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland. ewa.mizia@gazeta.pl.
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mizia
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tomaszewski
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Pawel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Depukat
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Wieslawa
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Klimek-Piotrowska
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Artur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pasternak
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Izabela
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mroz
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bonczar
mesh_terms: D002348:Carpal Bones / Q000473:pathology*; D050824:Carpal Joints / Q000473:pathology*; D002349:Carpal Tunnel Syndrome / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008475:Median Nerve / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: anatomical variation; carpal tunnel syndrome; median nerve