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  • Title
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Local Anesthesia
  • 3. Prep and Drape
  • 4. Tourniquet
  • 5. Incision over Radial Styloid
  • 6. Subdermal Dissection and Protection of Sensory Nerve Branches
  • 7. Incision into Extensor Retinaculum and First Extensor Compartment
  • 8. Exploration and Full Release of Tendons: EPB, APL
  • 9. Confirming Release, Having Patient Move Their Thumb, and Hemostasis
  • 10. Closure

First Extensor Compartment Release for De Quervain's Tenosynovitis

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Arya Rao1; Sudhir B. Rao, MD2
1Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program
2Munson Healthcare Cadillac Hospital

OrthopaedicsMultidisciplinary Surgery

Procedure Outline

Table of Contents

  1. 1. Introduction
    1. 2. Local Anesthesia
      1. 3. Prep and Drape
        1. 4. Tourniquet
          1. 5. Incision over Radial Styloid
            1. 6. Subdermal Dissection and Protection of Sensory Nerve Branches
              1. 7. Incision into Extensor Retinaculum and First Extensor Compartment
                1. 8. Exploration and Full Release of Tendons: EPB, APL
                  1. 9. Confirming Release, Having Patient Move Their Thumb, and Hemostasis
                    1. 10. Closure

                      1. Introduction

                      2. Local Anesthesia

                      3. Prep and Drape

                      4. Tourniquet

                      5. Incision over Radial Styloid

                      6. Subdermal Dissection and Protection of Sensory Nerve Branches

                      7. Incision into Extensor Retinaculum and First Extensor Compartment

                      8. Exploration and Full Release of Tendons: EPB, APL

                      1. Check for and Release any Accessory Compartments

                      9. Confirming Release, Having Patient Move Their Thumb, and Hemostasis

                      10. Closure

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                      Munson Healthcare Cadillac Hospital

                      Article Information

                      Publication Date
                      Article ID497
                      Production ID0497
                      Volume2025
                      Issue497
                      DOI
                      https://doi.org/10.24296/jomi/497