Quantitative macroradiographic examination of a group of early to moderately advanced rheumatoid patients showed the wrist and hand to have an average of 75 (SD 26) erosions out of 142 possible sites. Joint involvement was greatest in the wrist followed by the metacarpophalangeal (MCP), proximal interphalangeal (PIP), and distal interphalangeal (DIP) joints respectively. In the wrist erosion di...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to report our experience of fingertip replantation without venous anastomosis using alternate method to counter post-operative venous congestion. METHODS 30 Patients (18 men and 12 women) with 30 fingertip amputations (Tamai zone I) were treated with artery-only anastomosis fingertip replantation between March 2010 and July 2014. Postoperative venous outf...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have suggested a strong genetic component to osteoarthritis (OA), especially that of the hand, and three linkage studies have suggested the existence of susceptibility loci in disparate regions of chromosome 2q. OBJECTIVE To examine for linkage to 2q in a Tasmanian population of women and men with familial hand OA. METHODS Hand OA (distal interphalangeal, carpome...

Clinique Equine Desbrosse, St. Lambert des Bois, France1, Department of Veterinary Clinical Science and Animal Husbandry, The University of Liverpool, South Wirral2, Cotts Equine Hospital, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, UK3, Département de morphologie et pathologie, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire de l’Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium4, Clinique de Genainville, Genainville, France5, Equine Clinic,...

In an anatomic study of 64 fingers, we demonstrated that the proximal interphalangeal joint is innervated by branches of the palmar digital nerves. The number of articular branches ranges from two to four and their origins from the digital nerve are between 2 and 8 mm from the proximal interphalangeal joint. In a clinical series of 24 neurectomies in 21 patients, there was a significant improve...

Progressive pseudorheumatoid dysplasia (PPD) or spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda with progressive arthropathy (SEDT-PA) is a rare arthropathy of childhood involving the axial skeleton as well as small peripheral joints. A 10-year-old boy was referred by a general practitioner with pain and deformity in the fingers of hands and limping gait. There was no joint synovitis although the finger joi...

Bone marrow lesions (BMLs) (also known as ‘bone bruises’, ‘bone oedema’, ‘bone contusions’ and ‘occult fractures’) within the middle phalanx were diagnosed by standing low field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in 7 horses. The lesions were characterised by low signal intensity on T1and T2*-weighted gradient echo sequences, mildly increased signal intensity on T2 fast spin echo sequences, and h...

Swan neck deformity is characterized by hyperextension of the proximal interphalangeal joint and limited extension distal joint, showing shape a swan’s neck. The can occur either acutely or chronically. A common acute cause this trauma, chronic secondary due to rheumatoid arthritis. treatment swan tends depend on knowledge experience physician because number cases that hand surgeons limited, th...