Specifically, it affects the tendons of two muscles called abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis ... by the surrounding tendonous sheath that covers them. It most commonly occurs ...

“We wanted to look specifically at the [extensor pollicis longus] tendon.” Putman’s team reviewed the radiographs of 19 patients who had distal radius fractures and established or impending ...

Tenosynovitis: Inflammation of the tendon sheath, typically presenting ... in the wrist that houses the extensor pollicis brevis and abductor pollicis longus tendons, often implicated in de ...

Late direct repair of a lacerated flexor tendon is a tendon repair performed 3 weeks after injury. When direct repair is performed late, contraction of the musculotendonous unit makes it difficult ...

An adherent extensor pollicis longus tendon may have to be displaced from its scarred sheath into the soft subcutaneous tissue. For practical purposes the thumb has to be placed so that the tips ...

MOTOR regeneration of the median nerve after transection and repair of the median nerve at the wrist occurs in only about 5 per cent of cases. The thumb is incapable of abduction and opposition ...

In one patient with an extensor pollicis longus tendon rupture, a surgeon performed an extensor indicis proprius tendon transfer in conjunction with the retinaculum release. Another patient had ...

After stability is reexamined under anesthesia, an incision is made over the joint, with care taken to avoid the extensor pollicis longus tendon and any of the nerve branches passing through the area.

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 no pain upon palpation over the flexor sheath or the volar deep spaces of the hand ... There was a 3 mm laceration in the extensor pollicis longus tendon overlying the interphalangeal joint, ...