Positive carpal Tinel sign

MedGen UID:: 1779488
•Concept ID:: C5539755
•: Laboratory or Test Result

Synonym:	Positive carpal Hoffmann Tinel sign

HPO:	HP:0033672

Definition

The Tinel test is performed by lightly tapping (percussing) over the median nerve. It is positive (abnormal) if the patient experiences pain and paresthesias (tingling, numbness) along the distribution of the median nerve. [from HPO]

Term Hierarchy

GTR
MeSH

CClinical test, RResearch test, OOMIM, GGeneReviews, VClinVar

CROGVPositive carpal Tinel sign

Abnormality of prenatal development or birth
- Fetal anomaly
  - Congenital Systemic Disorder
    - Abnormality of the nervous system
      - Abnormality of the peripheral nervous system
        Abnormal peripheral nervous system physiology
        Positive carpal Tinel sign

Conditions with this feature

Carpal tunnel syndrome 2

MedGen UID:: 1725962
•Concept ID:: C5436916
•: Disease or Syndrome

Carpal tunnel syndrome-2 (CTS2) is characterized by the relatively early onset of symptoms of median nerve compression in the wrist. Patients experience pain and numbness in the thumb, index, and middle fingers, correlating with the median nerve distribution in the hand. In addition to thickening of the tendons and ligaments of the wrist, thickening of other tendons has been observed (Li et al., 2020). For a general phenotypic description and discussion of genetic heterogeneity of carpal tunnel syndrome, see CTS1 (115430).

See: Condition Record

Carpal tunnel syndrome 2