Influence of age and duration of neuropathy on effect of the surgical treatment of upper extremity compressive neuropathies

: Carpal tunnel syndrome and cubital tunnel syndrome are the most common compressive neuropathies of the upper extremity. Many surgical techniques of its treatment have been elaborated. Even though all of techniques turned out to be equally effective, minimal invasive methods are now very willingly applied. In our research, performed on 65 patients, we would like to demonstrate, that duration of the neuropathy has a serious influence on the effect of surgical treatment.