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de Quervain's tenosynovitis

In case of pain directly over the radial styloid process, there is stenosing tenosynovitis in the first compartment (de Quervain's disease).

Finkelstein test

  • Fist with thumb flexed into the palm
  • Ulnarly deviates the hand and stretches M. abductor pollicis longus and M. extensor pollicis brevis
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