The Operative Treatment for Carpal Boss / 대한정형외과학회잡지
The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
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: 638-642, 2002.
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in Korean
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
Carpal boss of the hand is a rare lesion. This study was conducted to recognize the clinical patterns of this disease entity and to evaluate the diagnosing modalities, differencial diagnosis, and results after operative treatment. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
We report upon 7 operative cases of carpal boss of the hand. There were 5 females and 2 males with an aver-age age of 35.4. The mean follow up period for patients in this study was 15 months. The dominant hand was affected in 4 cases and the small ganglion was associated with the carpal boss in 4 cases.RESULTS:
The average duration of conservative treatment before surgical treatment was 8.3 months. All of the patients had taken NSAIDs prior to surgery and 4 patients had received a corticosteroid injection at least once. All of the patient had surgical treatment and complete symptomatic relief was achieved in 6 cases. One patient had no symptomatic relief.CONCLUSION:
We operated upon patients who did not respond to conservative treatment or in whom the carpal boss associated with a ganglion, 5 of 7 cases showed a satisfactory result. In view of these results, we recommended that operative treatment should be con-sidered in such cases.
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Main subject:
Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
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Follow-Up Studies
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Ganglion Cysts
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Diagnosis
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Hand
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
Korean
Journal:
The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
Year:
2002
Type:
Article
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