Prevalence of Doctor-Diagnosed Thumb Carpometacarpal Joint Osteoarthritis: An Analysis of Swedish Health Care
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Total joint arthroplasty in the treatment of advanced stages of thumb carpometacarpal joint osteoarthritis.
PURPOSE Osteoarthritis of the thumb basal joint is a very common and disabling condition that frequently affects middle-aged women. Many different surgical techniques have been proposed for extensive degenerative arthritis of the first carpometacarpal (CMC) joint. Joint replacement has been an effective treatment of this condition. The purpose of this article is to present the outcome of a tota...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arthritis Care & Research
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2151-464X
DOI: 10.1002/acr.22250