. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 8.

Published in final edited form as: J Clin Neurosci. 2017 Feb 10;39:111–113. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2017.01.006

Table 3.

Comparison of BCTQ and NIHSS scores of stroke patients screened with CTS (+) and CTS (−) in the paretic and nonparetic sides using nerve ultrasound and the clinical exam, respectively.

	US diagnosis			Exam diagnosis
	CTS (+) (mean ±SD)	CTS (−) (mean ± SD)	p-value^*	CTS (+) (mean ±SD)	CTS (−) (mean ±SD)	p-value^*
Paretic side	N = 19	N = 5		N = ll	N = 13
BCTQ	6.47 ± 6.46	6.40 ± 7.27	0.9715	6.09 ± 6.82	6.77 ± 6.42	0.9073
NIHSS	7.47 ± 5.05	8.20 ± 4.15	0.8306	8.45 ± 5.41	6.92 ± 4.31	0.4326
Nonparetic side	N = 20	N = 4		N = 8	N = 16
BCTQ	6.60 ± 6.87	5.75 ± 4.57	0.9071	9.75 ± 7.36	4.81 ± 5.49	0.1097
NIHSS	7.25 ± 4.79	9.50 ± 5.07	0.5600	8.63 ± 5.60	7.13 ± 4.46	0.6231

Wilcoxon two-sample test two-sided p-value.