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The Upper Hand: Chuck & Chris Talk Hand Surgery
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The Long-Term Effects of Steroids on Carpal Tunnel Surgery
Lee Penn and that's LY-PEN reported the long-term results of a randomized clinical trial of steroids versus carpal tunnel surgery. With 90% follow-up from the original cohort at a mean of 6.3 years therapeutic failure defined as any further treatment occurred in 11.6%. That means that 58% of patients randomized to steroid injection needed no further treatment, which is surprising honestly. He says if you look at these three studies that this group has published they've reported their one-year results,. two-year results and then there are three-year results.
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