The diagnosis of ulnar-sided wrist symptoms concentrates on distal radioulnar joint and triquetral-hamate joint pathology. I consider this is only looking at the "tip of the iceberg" and ignoring other possible pathologies. In particular, this ignores the role of triquetrohamate and pisotriquetral pathologies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe pronator teres syndrome is a set of signs and symptoms that result from compression of the median nerve in the upper forearm. It is a dynamic syndrome that is frequently associated with compression of the same nerve at the carpal tunnel. The literature describes different anatomic structures that can cause this syndrome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: We present a new technique for the correction of thumb metacarpophalangeal joint hyperextension in patients with concomitant basal thumb osteoarthritis. For consistent result with trapeciometacarpal arthroplasty both pathologies should be treated at the same time.
Indication: Cases with passively reducible metacarpophlangeal joint (without osteoarthritis or severe medial instability).
Tech Hand Up Extrem Surg
December 2010
The modified Zancolli arthroplasty for basal thumb arthritis is an alternative to different procedures described for this pathology. As most of the methods, it includes complete trapeziectomy. The main difference is that the interposition is made with capsule (resembling Colonna's method for the hips) and that the base of the metacarpal is stabilized in the correct place by a tendon transfer (performed with an accessory of abductor pollicis longus).
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