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Musculoskeletal Diseases > Muscular Diseases > Tendinopathy > Tendon Entrapment > Trigger Finger Disorder
... > Nervous System Diseases > Neuromuscular Diseases > Muscular Diseases > Tendinopathy > Tendon Entrapment > Trigger Finger Disorder
Wounds and Injuries > Tendon Injuries > Tendinopathy > Tendon Entrapment > Trigger Finger Disorder

Preferred term

Trigger Finger Disorder  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Digits, Trigger
  • Digit, Trigger
  • Entrapment, Flexor Tendon
  • Entrapments, Flexor Tendon
  • Finger, Snapping
  • Fingers, Snapping
  • Flexor Tendon Entrapment
  • Flexor Tendon Entrapments
  • Snapping Finger
  • Snapping Fingers
  • Tendon Entrapment, Flexor
  • Tendon Entrapments, Flexor
  • Trigger Digit
  • Trigger Digits

Scope note

  • 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).

History note

  • 2007

In other languages

  • napsusormihäiriö

    Finnish

  • digitus contractus
  • fleksorijänteen kyhmy
  • morbus tendinum nodularis
  • napsusormi
  • nodulaarinen jännesairaus
  • stenosoiva tenosynoviitti
  • trigger finger
  • Triggerfinger

    Swedish

  • Knäppande fingrar
  • Triggertumme

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D052582

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