Percutaneous release of trigger finger

Authors

  • Erick Héctor Hernández González
  • Gretel Mosquera Betancourt

Abstract

Background: trigger finger is a frequent and debilitating disease. Spontaneous long term resolution is rare. There are open techniques that offer good results but percutaneous techniques have been promoted.
Objective: to characterize the results of percutaneous release in patients with trigger finger from March 2013 to march 2016.
Methods: a prospective, descriptive and transversal study was conducted. The universe was made up with 47 patients and 57 fingers, selected by authors’ criteria. Descriptive and inferential statistics techniques were used.
Results: women prevailed with 45 cases for 78,9 %. Most of the patients belonged to 50 a 59 age group with the 70,2 %. Dominant upper limb prevailed with 51 cases for 89,5 %. Third finger was the most affected one with 41 cases and 35 of them had a grade II stenosis. Preoperative evaluation showed that all fingers presented bad or regular evaluation. After surgery 56 fingers presented good or excellent results for a 98,2 %. Three patients had complications for a 5,2 %, which improved six months after the surgery.
Conclusions: percutaneous release of trigger finger was effective in the majority of the patients, with good results at long term. It is an easy technique which needs a well knowledge of the anatomic zone to avoid complications.

DeCS: FINGER JOINT; TENOSYNOVITIS; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; RISK FACTORS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE.

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2018-06-02

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Hernández González EH, Mosquera Betancourt G. Percutaneous release of trigger finger. Arch méd Camagüey [Internet]. 2018 Jun. 2 [cited 2025 Aug. 30];22(3):303-12. Available from: https://revistaamc.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/5357

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