Surgical treatment of nerve entrapment syndromes

Nerve entrapment syndromes are, by definition, states of disproportion between the volume of the peripheral nerve and the space through which a nerve in extremities passes. In the Institute of Neurosurgery, Clinical Center of Serbia carpal tunnel syndrome and cubital tunnel syndrome are the most frequent compressive neuropathies, and their frequency in our series is 91%. This study represents comparative analysis of parameters which can influence on surgical treatment of carpal and cubital tunnel syndrome. Analysis was performed on 169 patients operated on because of carpal tunnel syndrome, and 83 patients operated on because of cubital tunnel syndrome by microsurgical procedures such as decompression, transposition, epineurectomy or interfascicular neurolysis, during the period from 1979. up to 2000. Through the comparative and descriptive analysis it was investigated corelation between clinical and electrodiagnostical findings, as well as between results of the surgical treatment with intention of checking of indication for surgical treatment.