An intraarticular injection to the elbow joint completely relieves pain in stenosing tenosynovitis of the wrist

Stenosing tenosynovitis of the first dorsal compartment wrist, de Quervain’s disease causes radial wrist pain and disability. Clinically, corticosteroids are most commonly used to treat Quervain's disease. The injection triamcinolone into sheath both extensor pollicis brevis abductor longus tendon is known successfully relieve symptoms However, depigmentation skin spontaneous rupture tendons have been frequently reported as side effects intra-sheath triamcinolone. To bypass undesirous complications for treatment disease, we conducted an intra-articular it elbow joint instead wrist. This retrospective study examines results 54 outpatients who presented with from October 2018 through September 2021 were treated a combination triamcinolone/ lidocaine injection. After single triamcinolone, patients had considerable relief dose-dependent manner experienced easier mobility than prior treatment. With two times injections, movement flexibility more consolidated. Adverse caused by observed in none. These indicate that can provide acceptable option