Open AccessArthroscopic Tenovaginotomy and Ganglion Excision of the Flexor Carpi Radialis Fibro-Osseous Tendon Sheath
Author(s) -
Jerone T. Landström
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
techniques in hand and upper extremity surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.401
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1531-6572
pISSN - 1089-3393
DOI - 10.1097/bth.0000000000000296
Subject(s) - medicine , tendon , tenosynovitis , ganglion , tendon sheath , surgery , anatomy , arthroscopy
The treatment of flexor carpi radialis (FCR) tendon stenosing tenosynovitis recalcitrant to nonsurgical intervention has been open or blind tenovaginotomy of the volar trapezial fibro-osseous sheath of the FCR tendon. The surgical literature has not reported arthroscopic tenovaginotomy of the FCR fibro-osseous tendon sheath with or without associated ganglia. This report describes a technique of arthroscopic tenovaginotomy for stenosing tenosynovitis of the FCR tendon at the trapezial fibro-osseous sheath with or without excision of any associated ganglion through a not previously described new volar radial trapezial arthroscopic portal.