Trigger Thumb

Trigger thumb in infancy.

Bilateral trigger thumb in infants.

'Trigger thumb' or 'snapping thumb' in infants is a curious digital restriction in the very young and perhaps is best referred to as a tendovaginitis stenosans of the sheath of the flexor hallucis longus muscle as it is found in infants. The characteristic feature of this condition is the sudden overcoming of involuntary resistance occurring in the normal range of movement of the interphalangea...

Trigger thumb and finger in pediatric patients

Objectives: Trigger finger in pediatric patients is not as commonly seen as it is in adults. With that, it is ten times less likely to be seen than trigger thumb. Trigger finger usually presents in children less than 8 years old. It may be associated with anatomic, metabolic, inflammatory, and central nerve disorders. Flexion deformity of the finger is reported as the most frequent presentation...

Autosomal dominant inheritance pattern for trigger thumb.

Notta, in 1850, provided the first clinical description of trigger thumb.1,2 He reported the presence of a nodule on a flexor tendon that was interfering with its gliding motion. Since this first description, the etiology of trigger fingers has been debated. Although a genetic basis has been suspected, the evidence for such in reported cases in the English literature is sparse. We present a ped...

The natural history of pediatric trigger thumb.

BACKGROUND Pediatric trigger thumb is a condition of flexion deformity of the interphalangeal joint in children. Although the surgical outcome is satisfactory, the indications for nonoperative treatment for this condition are not clear. The aim of the present study was to determine the rate of resolution of untreated pediatric trigger thumb. METHODS Data on seventy-one thumbs in fifty-three c...