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Preferred term

Trigger Finger Disorder  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A painful disability in the hand affecting the finger or thumb. It is caused by mechanical impingement of the digital flexor tendons as they pass through a narrowed retinacular pulley at the level of the metacarpal head. Thickening of the sheath and fibrocartilaginous metaplasia can occur, and nodules can form. (From Green's Operative Hand Surgery, 5th ed, p2137-58).

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Flexor Tendon Entrapment
  • Snapping Finger
  • Trigger Digits

In other languages

  • French

  • Blocage du tendon fléchisseur
  • Doigt à ressort
  • Doigt en gachette

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-VF0SR2ZX-D

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