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Ultrasound‐Guided Hydraulic Release Associated With Corticosteroids in Radial Tunnel Syndrome: Description of Technique and Preliminary Clinical Results
Author(s) -
García Nicolás,
Rosales Julio,
Greene Cristóbal,
Droppelmann Guillermo,
Verdugo Marco A.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of ultrasound in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1550-9613
pISSN - 0278-4297
DOI - 10.1002/jum.15085
Subject(s) - medicine , infiltration (hvac) , ultrasound , saline , corticosteroid , local anesthetic , anesthesia , surgery , radiology , physics , thermodynamics
The aim of this study was to describe a perineural ultrasound‐guided infiltration technique for management of radial tunnel syndrome and to report its preliminary results in 54 patients. A mixture of a saline solution, a local anesthetic, and a corticosteroid solution was infiltrated in the perineural region at the arcade of Frohse. Pain was reported in 100% of patients before the procedure versus 1.9% after the procedure. Scratch collapse and Cozen test results were positive in 98.1% and 66.7% of patients before infiltration, respectively, versus 5.6% and 9.2% after infiltration. All variables had statistically significant differences between preprocedure and postprocedure evaluations ( P < .01).