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TRIGGER THUMB
Author(s) -
Hueston J. T.,
Wilson W. F.,
Soin K.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1973.tb129944.x
Subject(s) - thumb , simplicity , medicine , etiology , tendon , surgery , philosophy , pathology , epistemology
Trigger thumb is not rare, but it should not be confused with more serious injuries of the thumb. The simplicity of its treatment is matched by the simplicity of its aetiology, which has been clarified by recent studies on the intratendinous architecture of the flexor pollicis longus tendon. Its frequency in infancy is stressed.