We present a case in which arthroscopy was used to remove foreign body debris secondary to an improvised explosive device (IED) from the wrist. The patient had noted pain for 6 months after sustaining multiple injuries after an IED detonation near the armored car in which he was traveling. He had pain on examination at the ulnar fovea with palpation and palpable clunking with forced ulnar devia...

The minimally invasive approach of arthroscopy means less pain and faster recovery time for patients compared to open surgery. However, it implies a high difficulty of performance. Therefore, surgeon should remain at a high level of technical and professional expertise to perform such operations. Surgeon’s skills are being developed over years of surgical training on animals, cadavers and patie...

Indications for small joint arthroscopy in the hand remain poorly understood. This is due to a paucity of papers discussing this technique in the literature, as well as inadequate hands on training in the pearls and pitfalls regarding this application within the commonly used "scope" of arthroscopy. Despite the fact that small joint arthroscopes have been available for over a decade, hand surge...

Scaphotrapeziotrapezoid (STT) joint osteoarthritis accounts for 13% of all wrist arthritis cases. The arthroscopic treatment combines radial midcarpal portal and STT portal called 1-2 midcarpal portal. We performed 13 isolated resections from the scaphoid distal pole. Patients were only women (average age, 58 years). Pain, mobility, and muscular strength improved significantly. At the same time...

Objectives: To assess the diagnostic validity and reliability of magnetic resonance arthrography in identifying lesion triangular intrinsic wrist ligaments fibrocartilaginous complex based on arthroscopy as reference standard preferred modality imaging. Methodology: This was a retrospective validation study that carried out at Radiology department PESSI (Punjab Employees Social Security) Hospit...

Objectives To correlate the level of fibrocytes in peripheral blood, synovial tissue and vitro culture rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with changes disease activity, imaging pulmonary function. Methods Twenty patients early RA (ERA) 20 long-standing (LRA) were enrolled a 6-month prospective study. Sixteen undergoing wrist arthroscopy healthy controls. Patients underwent function tests, ultrasound ult...

Wrist arthroscopy is a successful tool to diagnose and treat several intra-articular wrist pathologies. To assess the stability integrity of triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC), most commonly injured structure in ulnocarpal compartment, trampoline hook tests are frequently used daily practice. However, their arthroscopic performance measures have not been well elucidated date. While test m...