胸郭出口症候群手術例の検討 熊大式ＴＯＳ臨床症状評価案を用いて

Abstract

Evaluation of thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is very difficult because of its various symptoms. We made an idia of Kumamoto University Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Evaluation Score which includes provisions of Pain, ADL disturbance, autonomic nerve symptom and examination findings. This time we evaluated the pre-and post-operative scores in 31 TOS patients. (41 sides, 18 male, and 23 female) In this study, we found the difference in postoperate score between male and female, Male patients had better results than female patient.In conclusions, our TOS Evaluation Score is usefull, because it can clarify the symptoms of TOS by scoring.