[An outpatient with hand numbness: old prejudices, new strategies of differential diagnosis and treatment].

Aim: To search for 'diagnostic masks' of tunnel syndrome (TS) of the upper limbs and evaluate the efficacy of the antiacetylcholinesterase agent ipidakrine in the treatment of TS in a polyclinic.

Material And Methods: An analysis of outpatient cards showed that 597 people had complaints of numbness in their hands (23.9% of all neurological pathology).