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Tendon Inflammation of the Fingers Including Trigger Finger

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This common group of hand disorders have a diverse and often confusing nomenclature. The term tendonopathy is perhaps a better description for a group of conditions affecting the whole tendon apparatus which includes true inflammatory synovitis (also called “-vaginitis”) of the tendon sheath (infective and non-infective), infiltrative tendonoses of the tendon (gout, calcific, amyloid, sarcoid – all of which may produce secondary, true inflammation) and rarely, isolated tendonitis of the tendon itself.

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    Jonathan W. G. Lohn BSc, FRCS Plast & Andrew N. M. Fleming FRCS(Edin), FCS(SA)Plast

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Lohn, J.W.G., Fleming, A.N.M. (2015). Tendon Inflammation of the Fingers Including Trigger Finger. In: Trail, I., Fleming, A. (eds) Disorders of the Hand. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6557-6_3

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