De Quervain tenosynovitis is pain and swelling in the tendons around your thumb. Specifically, it affects the tendons of two muscles called abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis ...

ABSTRACT Techniques for restoring thumb opposition require multiple incisions and frequently use nonagonist muscles. Our experience using an agonist muscle through a single palmar approach is ...

De Quervain’s Disease is a painful tendinitis that develops at the base of the thumb at the wrist level. A Swiss surgeon, Fritz de Quervain, first described this problem in 1895. Numerous ...

In cases where the palmaris longus is absent, the surgeon may use one of several other tendons, including the extensor pollicis brevis tendon, the plantaris in the foot, a toe extensor, a small ...

De Quervain's disease, a form of stenosing tenosynovitis, predominantly affects the tendons within the first dorsal compartment of the wrist, namely the abductor pollicis longus and extensor ...

Stenosing tendovaginitis is due to a thickening of the fibrous sheath that covers the tendons and the synovial sheaths of the abductor pollicis longus and the extensor pollicis brevis as they pass ...