Clinical profile of carpal tunnel syndrome in a teaching hospital.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to review the clinical characteristics and demography of Carpel Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) cases presented to a university hospital.

Methodology: A retrospective study was done for 336 consecutive patients (290 females and 46 males), referred with a clinical diagnosis of CTS to the Neuro-diagnostic laboratory at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, between January 2007 and December 2010. All subjects had clinical evaluation and standardized nerve conduction studies (672 hands) performed by the same examiner.

Brain MRI and CT findings in sickle cell disease patients from Western Saudi Arabia.

Objective: To report the clinical and imaging findings in patients living in the Western Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where the Benin b-globin gene haplotype is prevalent.

Methods: Our study population consists of 36 sickle cell disease patients (17 males, 19 females; age range, 1.6-35.