Current trends in the management of trapeziometacarpal arthritis
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The purpose of this update is to report on a variety of topics related to trapeziometacarpal arthritis that have been recently investigated. The keyword trapeziometacarpal arthritis was utilized to query the PubMed database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. From the resulting list, papers published from the beginning of April 2014 through the beginning of April 2017 were reviewed. The forty-five studies identified are reviewed here and referenced.
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