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George S. Phalen, MD

JAMA. 1970;212(8):1365-1367.

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At the 99th annual meeting of the American Medical Association in 1950, I presented a report entitled "Spontaneous Compression of the Median Nerve at the Wrist," before the section on Orthopedic Surgery.¹ The report based on my experience with 11 patients with compression neuropathy of the median nerve at the wrist, was discussed by Walter Graham, MD, of Santa Barbara, Calif; Clarence Luckey, MD, of Stockton, Calif; and Sterling Bunnel, MD, of San Francisco. The report described a clinical syndrome unknown to almost all of the physicians attending that meeting.

During the next six years, I continued to diagnose and treat patients with carpal-tunnel syndrome. With a series of 71 patients, I believed I could speak with some authority on the cause and the proper treatment of the condition. I again turned to the section on Orthopedic Surgery to present these data and statistics, during the 105th annual meeting . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From Cleveland Clinic.

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Orthopedic Surgery during the 118th annual convention of the American Medical Association, New York, July 14, 1969.

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