A Rare Cause of Chronic Flexor Tenosynovitis of the Finger

Cat scratch disease (CSD) is an uncommon condition. When a patient is infected, the disease is often self-limiting. Cat scratch disease involving the musculoskeletal system had been described, but the manifestation of the disease in hand remained unexplored. We report a case of chronic flexor tenosy...

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Autores principales: Sem, Sei Haw, Chen Kang, Wang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10329813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37431353
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40175
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description Cat scratch disease (CSD) is an uncommon condition. When a patient is infected, the disease is often self-limiting. Cat scratch disease involving the musculoskeletal system had been described, but the manifestation of the disease in hand remained unexplored. We report a case of chronic flexor tenosynovitis of the left index finger caused by cat scratch disease. In this case, the antibiotic treatment did not improve the clinical outcome. However, surgical debridement of the diseased finger resulted in a tremendous improvement in terms of pain and range of motion.
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spelling pubmed-103298132023-07-10 A Rare Cause of Chronic Flexor Tenosynovitis of the Finger Sem, Sei Haw Chen Kang, Wang Cureus Pathology Cat scratch disease (CSD) is an uncommon condition. When a patient is infected, the disease is often self-limiting. Cat scratch disease involving the musculoskeletal system had been described, but the manifestation of the disease in hand remained unexplored. We report a case of chronic flexor tenosynovitis of the left index finger caused by cat scratch disease. In this case, the antibiotic treatment did not improve the clinical outcome. However, surgical debridement of the diseased finger resulted in a tremendous improvement in terms of pain and range of motion. Cureus 2023-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10329813/ /pubmed/37431353 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40175 Text en Copyright © 2023, Sem et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short A Rare Cause of Chronic Flexor Tenosynovitis of the Finger
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10329813/
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