Acute hand infections

CM Rerucha, JT Ewing, KE Oppenlander… - American family …, 2019 - aafp.org
Acute hand infections are often caused by puncture wounds and are generally classified into
superficial or deep infections. Superficial infections occur in the skin and subcutaneous …

Skin, Soft Tissue, and Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

A Marks, E Schraft, M Gottlieb - Emergency Medicine Clinics, 2024 - emed.theclinics.com
The landscape of medicine has been reshaped by the advent of ultrasound imaging, with
evergrowing importance and usage. The focus on skin, soft tissue, and musculoskeletal …

Contrast enhanced computed tomography in the diagnosis of acute pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis

DM Myers, C Goubeaux, B Skura, PJ Warmoth… - HAND, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The diagnosis of infectious flexor tenosynovitis (FTS) has historically been
made based on physical exam using Kanavel's signs. The specificity of these findings has …

Man with a non‐tender, swollen thumb

KB Griesmer, H Kons, SL Burleson… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A 37-year-old man presented with 3 weeks of swelling to his right thumb after a laceration
repair of the thumb after injury. Physical exam was notable for non-tender circumferential …

POCUS evaluation of pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis

G Bhagat, W Scheels - Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
A case of point-of-care-ultrasound identification of pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis (PFT) is
presented here. 38 year old male presented one day after removing a splinter from the third …

[HTML][HTML] A Five-Year Retrospective Analysis of Diagnostic and Treatment Data of Flexor Sheath Infections: Can We Accurately Predict the Presence and Severity of …

J Muscat, R Manton, R Ahmed, O Johnson, H Ridha… - Cureus, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Flexor sheath infections (FSIs) are soft tissue infections affecting the hand, which, if
mismanaged, can have devastating consequences. Clinical assessment is key to diagnosis …

[PDF][PDF] Suppurative Flexor Tenosynovitis: A Case Report

PA Wibowo, A Adnani - e-journal.unair.ac.id
Background: Suppurative flexor tenosynovitis is an infection of the flexor tendon sheath. This
case report presents the clinical course and management of a patient diagnosed with …

[HTML][HTML] Using Ultrasound to Diagnose Patient with Bilateral, Atraumatic Hand Pain

A Tabibnia, D Haase - acepnow.com
A 25-year-old man with no past medical history presented to the emergency department with
bilateral hand pain. This was his third ED presentation. During his second visit, at an outside …

[HTML][HTML] Organ System/Specialty

MD Naila Ghafoor, F Lema, C Yu - emdocs.net
A 21 year-old female with no past medical history presented to the emergency department
(ED) with ring finger pain and swelling of her right hand over the past six days. According to …

Organ System/Specialty

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