CALCAREOUS DEPOSITS ABOUT THE METACARPO-PHALANGEAL JOINTS

Locking of the metacarpo-phalangeal joints.

Case 1-in January 1972 a nurse aged twenty years presented with locking of the left index finger. Earlier the same day she had been removing sutures, holding a forceps in the left hand, when the second metacarpo-phalangeal joint “locked” in the flexed position and she could not straighten it. She gave no history of any injury but said that during the preceding month she had noticed “cramps” in ...

The anatomy of the metacarpo-phalangeal joints, with observations of the aetiology of ulnar drift.

One hundred normal fingers were dissected and arthrographs obtained by injection of chromopaque-gelatin mixture, allowing comparison between the radiographic and macroscopic configuration of the synovial capsule. Synovial recesses protruding from each side of every metacarpo-phalangeal joint were found in relation to the collateral ligaments and corresponding exactly with the site of radiologic...

The natural history of the rheumatoid metacarpo-phalangeal joint.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic disease usually presenting as a chronic progressive symmetrical inflammation of multiple joints. The metacarpo-phalangeal joints are the commonest sites of involvement, the initial lesion being a proliferative synovitis. As the disease progresses the proximal phalanx commonly subluxates volarward and is deviated ulnarward on the metacarpal head (Smith and Kapl...

Surgical Management of Congenital Bilateral Flexural Deformity of the Metacarpo- phalangeal Joints in calf: A Case Report

A calf with congenital bilateral  exural deformity of the metacarpo-phalangeal joints was presented and subsequently diagnosed as contraction of super cial digital  exor tendons. It was treated with tenotomy of super cial digital  exor tendons.

Variation in extension of the metacarpo-phalangeal and interphalangeal joint of the thumb.