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The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/57509 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation
Author: Datema, Mirjam
Title: Peripheral nerve damage : diagnosis and prediction of recovery
Date: 2017-11-29
Peripheral nerve damage
Diagnosis and Prediction of Recovery
Mirjam Datema
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The research described in this thesis was performed at the Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology of the Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands.
The printing of this thesis was financially supported by Chipsoft
Nederlandse Vereniging voor Klinische Neurofysiologie
Peripheral nerve damage
Diagnosis and Prediction of Recovery
Proefschrift
Ter verkrijging van
de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden, op gezag van Rector Magnificus prof. mr. C.J.J.M. Stolker,
volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties te verdedigen op woensdag 29 november 2017
klokke 16:15 uur
door
Mirjam Datema
geboren te Delft in 1985
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Promotores Prof. dr. J.G. van Dijk Prof. dr. M.J.A. Malessy
Copromotor Dr. M.R. Tannemaat
Leden promotiecommissie Prof. dr. R.A.C. Roos
Dr. E. Hoitsma (Alrijne Ziekenhuis, Leiden)
Prof. dr. L.H. Visser (Universiteit voor Humanistiek, Utrecht; Elisabeth-TweeSteden Ziekenhuis, Tilburg)
CONTENTS
Chapter 1. General introduction and scope of this thesis 7 PART I DIAGNOSIS
Chapter 2. The diagnostic value of water immersion skin wrinkling and Neuropads
in small fiber neuropathy 23
Chapter 3. Tinel’s sign has no diagnostic value for nerve entrapment of neuropathy
in the legs 39
Chapter 4. Decompressive surgery for diabetic neuropathy: Waiting for
incontrovertible proof 53
PART II PREDICTION OF RECOVERY
Chapter 5. Anterior subcutaneous transposition for persistent ulnar neuropathy
after neurolysis 65
Chapter 6. Outcome of carpal tunnel release and the relation with depression 81 Chapter 7. Sensation recovers less in the old than in the young patient after carpal
tunnel release 97
Chapter 8. Summary and Discussion & Future perspectives 115
Nederlandse samenvatting 129
List of abbreviations 136
Co-author affiliations 138
Curriculum vitae 139
List of publications 140
Dankwoord 141
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