Tuberculous tenosynovitis affecting flexor tendon sheaths of the hand is a rare condition and quite disabling to the patient like tuberculosis elsewhere. It should be attacked by operation and antituberculous chemotherapy, but has a tendency to recur after surgery. The authors have encountered a case of tuberculous tenosynovitis affecting flexor tendon sheaths in the palmar area of the left hand, and treated the case with surgery and anti-tuberculous chemotherapy.
Drug Therapy ; Hand ; Humans ; Tendons ; Tenosynovitis ; Tuberculosis

Extraosseous tuberculosis of the extremities is relatively rare even in the wide spread incidence of bone and joint tuberculosis. And few reports about extraosseous tuberculosis of the extremities have been published in the literatures. Eight cases of the extraosseous tuberculosis of the extremities were experienced at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National Medical Center, from 1975 to Sep. 1979. Five out of 8 extraosseous tuberculosis were tenosynovitis and the others were bursitis in location. All cases were surgically excised and combined with antituberculous chemotherapy, and primarily cured.
Bursitis ; Drug Therapy ; Extremities ; Incidence ; Tenosynovitis ; Tuberculosis ; Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular

Humans ; Tenosynovitis/therapy* ; Tendons ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Primary Health Care

Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture Therapy ; methods ; Adult ; Aged ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Tenosynovitis ; therapy

Radial styloid stenosing tenosynovitis is a kind of common chronic motor system injuries, and could lead to joint pain and aggravates with activity, in further makes a great impact on people's daily life. At present, therapeutic methods for this disease could divid into conservative treatment and surgical treatment. What we pay attention to is cure. Conservative treatment could effectively relieve pain and improve wrist motion in acute phase, however, it make little difference on long--term effect and usually cause to reappear. Surgical treatment, as a kind of invasive therapies, is chosen only when facing recalcitrant radial styloid stenosing tenosynovitis with many complications for its high cure rate. The author thought that patient education should play an important role in the therapy of radial styloid stenosing tenosynovitis, comprehensive treatment could be applied according to the different conditions of disease development, and could increase cure disease.
Humans ; Radius ; Tendon Entrapment ; diagnosis ; therapy ; Tenosynovitis ; therapy ; Wrist ; Wrist Joint