Functional Impairment of the Thumb in a Case of Hand Osteoarthritis: What Can Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Tell Us?
Osteoarthritis of the hand is common, frequently affecting postmenopausal women. Heberden's nodes are characteristic lesions. The present case is a 62 year old female having pain and functional impairment of her right thumb. She was examined by musculoskeletal ultrasound, which played a useful...
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| author | Abdallah El-Sayed Allam Adham Aboul Fotouh Khalil Ahmed Negm Basma Aly Eltawab Ke-Vin Chang |
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| description | Osteoarthritis of the hand is common, frequently affecting postmenopausal women. Heberden's nodes are characteristic lesions. The present case is a 62 year old female having pain and functional impairment of her right thumb. She was examined by musculoskeletal ultrasound, which played a useful role in diagnosing the cause of pain and functional impairment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aa5a31f7088f40899b4ba5a8cc7347d42022-12-22T01:51:09ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Medical Ultrasound0929-64412016-03-01241293110.1016/j.jmu.2015.11.004Functional Impairment of the Thumb in a Case of Hand Osteoarthritis: What Can Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Tell Us?Abdallah El-Sayed Allam0Adham Aboul Fotouh Khalil1Ahmed Negm2Basma Aly Eltawab3Ke-Vin Chang4Department of Physical Medicine, Rheumatology, and Rehabilitation and Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, EgyptRheumatology Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Cairo University Hospitals, Cairo, EgyptDepartment of Physical Medicine, Rheumatology and Rehabilitation and Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, EgyptDepartment of Radiology and Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, EgyptDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Bei-Hu Branch, Taipei, TaiwanOsteoarthritis of the hand is common, frequently affecting postmenopausal women. Heberden's nodes are characteristic lesions. The present case is a 62 year old female having pain and functional impairment of her right thumb. She was examined by musculoskeletal ultrasound, which played a useful role in diagnosing the cause of pain and functional impairment.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929644115001009flexor pollicis longusosteoarthritisultrasound |
| spellingShingle | Abdallah El-Sayed Allam Adham Aboul Fotouh Khalil Ahmed Negm Basma Aly Eltawab Ke-Vin Chang Functional Impairment of the Thumb in a Case of Hand Osteoarthritis: What Can Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Tell Us? Journal of Medical Ultrasound flexor pollicis longus osteoarthritis ultrasound |
| title | Functional Impairment of the Thumb in a Case of Hand Osteoarthritis: What Can Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Tell Us? |
| title_full | Functional Impairment of the Thumb in a Case of Hand Osteoarthritis: What Can Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Tell Us? |
| title_fullStr | Functional Impairment of the Thumb in a Case of Hand Osteoarthritis: What Can Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Tell Us? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Functional Impairment of the Thumb in a Case of Hand Osteoarthritis: What Can Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Tell Us? |
| title_short | Functional Impairment of the Thumb in a Case of Hand Osteoarthritis: What Can Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Tell Us? |
| title_sort | functional impairment of the thumb in a case of hand osteoarthritis what can musculoskeletal ultrasound tell us |
| topic | flexor pollicis longus osteoarthritis ultrasound |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929644115001009 |
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