Reliability of the Hand20 questionnaire: comparison with the 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey.

Background: Hand20 is an illustrated, self-administered questionnaire comprising 20 short and easy-to-understand questions to assess upper limb disorders. This study aimed to test the reliability, validity, and responsiveness of Hand20.

Methods: Eighty-five patients with three upper limb disorders (51 with trigger finger, 29 with ulnar impaction syndrome, and five with carpal tunnel syndrome) completed Hand20, the Japanese Society for Surgery of the Hand version of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand questionnaire (DASH-JSSH), and the 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36).

[Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer with multiple bone metastasis without local invasion : a case report].

A 66-year-old man with superficial bladder cancer was treated with transurethral resection (TURBT) in October 2011. The pathological diagnosis was urothelial carcinoma (UC), grade 2, T1. A second TURBT was performed one month later.