Ahmet Eroğlu, Enes Sarı, Ali Kıvanç Topuz, Hakan Şimşek, Serhat Pusat ORIGINAL ARTICLE 365 September 26, 2018|Volume 6|Issue 10| WJCC|www.wjgnet.com Recurrent carpal tunnel syndrome: Evaluation and treatment of the possible causes Ahmet Eroğlu, Hakan Şimşek, Serhat Pusat, Department of Neurosurgery, Haydarpaşa Sultan Abdülhamid Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul 34000, Turkey Enes Sarı, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Near East University Hospital, Lefkoşa 99010, Cyprus Ali Kıvanç Topuz, Department of Neurosurgery, Baypark Hospital, Istanbul 34000, Turkey ORCID number: Ahmet Eroğlu (0000-0001-7848-1551); Enes Sarı (0000-0003-2385-1732); Ali Kıvanç Topuz (0000 -0001-7544-1087); Hakan Şimşek (0000-0002-2621-9372); Serhat Pusat (0000-0003-2412-2320). Author contributions: Eroğlu A contributed to the idea for research or article/hypothesis generation, supervision and responsibility for the organisation and course of the project and the manuscript preparation; Sarı E planed the methods to generate hypothesis and takes responsibility for creation of the entire or a substantial part of the manuscript; Topuz AK took responsibility for conducting literature search; Şimşek H reworked the final, before submission version of the manuscript for intellectual content, not just spelling and grammar check; Pusat S took responsibility for creation of the entire or a substantial part of the manuscript. Institutional review board statement: The manuscript has been approved by Ministry of Health Haydarpaşa Sultan Abdülhamid Education and Research Hospital, Review Board of Neurosurgery. Informed consent statement: It has been declared that all relevant persons involved (subjects or legally authorized representative) gave their informed consent (written or verbal, as appropriate). Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors have no conflicts of interest to report. Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Manuscript source: Unsolicited manuscript Correspondence to: Ahmet e roğlu, MD, Surgeon, Department of Neurosurgery, Haydarpaşa Sultan Abdülhamid Education and Research Hospital, Selimiye Neighborhood, Tibbiye Street, Istanbul 34000, Turkey. drahmeteroglu@gmail.com Telephone: +90-506-2036231 Fax: +90-216-5422815 Received: April 8, 2018 Peer-review started: April 8, 2018 First decision: May 16, 2018 Revised: July 25, 2018 Accepted: August 11, 2018 Article in press: August 11, 2018 Published online: September 26, 2018 Abstract AIM To investigate the causes of the recurrent carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and implemented surgical interventions. METHODS Four hundred and eighty-seven patients, who were diagnosed with CTS and underwent surgical intervention between October 2016 and September 2007, were evaluated in this retrospective study. The age, gender, physical evaluation findings, electrophysiological exami- nation reports and implemented surgical treatment methods were analyzed. RESULTS Thirty-nine of the cases were operated due to recur- Submit a Manuscript: http://www.f6publishing.com DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v6.i10.365 World J Clin Cases 2018 September 26; 6(10): 365-372 ISSN 2307-8960 (online) World Journal of Clinical Cases W JC C Retrospective Study