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Diagnosis is typically based on symptoms and signs after excluding other possible causes. [2] Trigger digits can resolve without treatment. Treatment options that are disease modifying include steroid injections and surgery. [3] Splinting immobilization of the finger may or may not be disease modifying.
De Quervain syndrome occurs when two tendons that control movement of the thumb become constricted by their tendon sheath in the wrist. [3] [5] [6] This results in pain and tenderness on the thumb side of the wrist. [3] Radial abduction of the thumb is painful. [6] On some occasions, there is uneven movement or triggering of the thumb with ...
The technique of thread trigger finger release is the application of Guo Technique [2] and the procedure is similar to that of the thread carpal tunnel release. [ 3 ] The successful rate of TTFR is high and there are almost no complications such as incomplete release, neurovascular or flexor tendon or A2 pulley injury, infection, bow string, or ...
Infectious tenosynovitis in 2.5% to 9.4% of all hand infections. Kanavel's cardinal signs are used to diagnose infectious tenosynovitis. They are: tenderness to touch along the flexor aspect of the finger, fusiform enlargement of the affected finger, the finger being held in slight flexion at rest, and severe pain with passive extension.
Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit hospital system with campuses in Rochester, Minnesota; Scottsdale and Phoenix, Arizona; and Jacksonville, Florida. [22] [23] Mayo Clinic employs 76,000 people, including more than 7,300 physicians and clinical residents and over 66,000 allied health staff, as of 2022. [5]
A systematic review has found that the improvement is seen in 68-100% of surgery patients and complete migraine elimination is seen in 8-86% of surgery patients. [13] The outcomes are usually measured in migraine intensity, frequency, and duration (an early measurement, the migraine headache index, was just the product of these numerical values).
De Quervain's thyroiditis, named after Fritz de Quervain This page was last edited on 15 August 2017, at 03:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Robert A. Kyle is a professor of medicine, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the Mayo Clinic.He specializes in the care of patients with plasma cell dyscrasias. . Throughout his career Kyle has published more than 1,850 scientific papers and abstracts on myeloma and other plasma cell diso