BOSTON — Aspiration — just ulnar to Lister’s tubercle — may help protect the extensor pollicis longus from rupturing after distal radius fracture, according to a study presented here.

De Quervain tenosynovitis is pain and swelling in the tendons around your thumb. Specifically, it affects the tendons of two muscles called abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis ...

As discussed earlier, in most cases, surgery is not necessary. However, at other times, it is the only way for a player to return to the field. After stability is reexamined under anesthesia, an ...

ABSTRACT Techniques for restoring thumb opposition require multiple incisions and frequently use nonagonist muscles. Our experience using an agonist muscle through a single palmar approach is ...

“We describe a patient with rupture of the extensor pollicis longus tendon associated with excessive video game play on his smartphone. A 29-year-old, right hand–dominant man presented with ...

De Quervain’s Disease is a painful tendinitis that develops at the base of the thumb at the wrist level. A Swiss surgeon, Fritz de Quervain, first described this problem in 1895. Numerous ...

This refers to problems in the thumb, hand and wrist, and most often presents as pain and swelling in the extensor pollicis longus, a tendon running from the ulna bone in the forearm to the thumb.

There was a 3 mm laceration in the extensor pollicis longus tendon overlying the interphalangeal joint, which communicated with the joint, but there was no purulence within the joint itself. The pus ...

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