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Snapping wrist due to bony prominence and tenosynovitis of the first extensor compartment: A case report
- Source :
- World Journal of Clinical Cases
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Baishideng Publishing Group Inc, 2021.
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Abstract
- BACKGROUND A snapping wrist is a rare symptom that results from the sudden impingement of one anatomic structure against another, subsequently causing a sudden movement only during wrist movement. CASE SUMMARY A 30-year-old woman with a history of right wrist contusion reported right wrist snapping after overuse. The snapping became symptomatic after moving heavy objects. The pain persisted even when she received 1 mo of conservative treatment. Physical examination showed painful wrist snapping during wrist radioulnar motion and thumb abduction-adduction. Radiography demonstrated bone overgrowth over the radial styloid process. Sonography disclosed a tendon jumping over a bony prominence in the first compartment during wrist motion. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed no anomalous tendon nor tumorlike lesion. Under the wide-awake local anesthesia no tourniquet (WALANT) technique, the lesion was identified in the first extensor compartment. The patient received stepwise extensor retinaculum release, synovectomy, and bone spur removal. By 6th week, the patient was completely free of pain and unable to snap her wrist. She started working 7 wk after the surgery. One year after the surgery, the wrist snap was not recurrent. CONCLUSION Careful physical examination and dynamic sonography may confirm the diagnosis of a snapping wrist. With the WALANT technique, the lesion could be identified under direct vision, and we could take stepwise interventions according to intraoperative presentations.
- Subjects :
- musculoskeletal diseases
medicine.medical_specialty
Wrist
Snapping wrist
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Case report
medicine
Tenosynovitis
integumentary system
business.industry
General Medicine
Anatomy
Snapping syndromes
musculoskeletal system
medicine.disease
Wide-awake local anesthesia no tourniquet technique
body regions
stomatognathic diseases
medicine.anatomical_structure
Orthopedics
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Extensor compartment
Orthopedic surgery
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23078960
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- World Journal of Clinical Cases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....adbe0cd39193f0f24fea50abaab0f5a2