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The Value of Wrist Arthroscopy

An evaluation of 129 Cases

L. DE SMET
D. DAUWE
Y. FORTEMS
B. ZACHEE
G. FABRY

From the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospital Pellenberg, K. U. Leuven, Belgium

Correspondence: L. De Smet. Orthopedic U.Z. Pellenberg, Weligerveld 1, B-3212 Pellenberg, Belgium.

In order to evaluate diagnostic and therapeutic wrist arthroscopy we analyzed 129 arthroscopies with a follow-up of at least 6 months. Seventy-seven arthroscopies were performed for therapeutic purposes; 52 arthroscopies were diagnostic. There were diagnostic benefits in 55 arthroscopies (42.5%), therapeutic benefits in 29 arthroscopies (22.5%), combined diagnostic and therapeutic benefits in 39 (30%) and no benefits in six (5%).

In 65 cases of the therapeutic group (with preoperative diagnosis) the authors found that the arthroscopy had been worthwhile. For the diagnostic group without a preoperative diagnosis, an arthroscopic diagnosis was made in 44 cases.

Complications occurred in two patients: one tendon incision over a Kirschner wire in the therapeutic group and one superficial infection in the diagnostic group.

Journal of Hand Surgery (British and European Volume), Vol. 21, No. 2, 252-254 (1996)
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-7681(96)80100-8
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