Improvement in Patient-Specific Outcomes After Carpal Tunnel Release in Patients Older Than 80 Years.

Outcomes after carpal tunnel release (CTR) may be influenced by age, disease chronicity, and disease severity. Multiple studies report mixed results between age and improvement through a validated instrument, the Brigham and Women's Carpal Tunnel Questionnaire (BWQ). However, these investigations did not control for confounders and had small cohorts of younger patients.

Multiple neurilemmomas in Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome: case report.

We present a case of a young woman with Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome and multiple neurilemmomas involving different nerves in a single extremity. Birt-Hogg-Dubé is an uncommon but increasingly recognized syndrome. Hand surgeons may wish to consider this disease when faced with a patient with multiple neurilemmomas, especially when associated with renal tumors, spontaneous pneumothoraces, or other benign or malignant neural or non-neural tumors.