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Therapeutic Approach of Wrist Ganglion Using Electroacupuncture: Two Case Reports

A ganglion cyst is a relatively common benign tumor on the wrist. Conservative and surgical approaches have been used for its treatment. Various conservative treatment methods have been suggested such as reassurance, aspiration, sclerosant injection, and direct compression. But, there is no acceptab...

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Autores principales: Kim, Kyoung Min, Kang, Eun Young, Lee, Sung Hoon, Jung, A Young, Nam, Doo Hyoun, Cheon, Ji Hwan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4092186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25024969
http://dx.doi.org/10.5535/arm.2014.38.3.415
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author Kim, Kyoung Min
Kang, Eun Young
Lee, Sung Hoon
Jung, A Young
Nam, Doo Hyoun
Cheon, Ji Hwan
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description A ganglion cyst is a relatively common benign tumor on the wrist. Conservative and surgical approaches have been used for its treatment. Various conservative treatment methods have been suggested such as reassurance, aspiration, sclerosant injection, and direct compression. But, there is no acceptable treatment of choice yet because each suggested method has a relatively high recurrence rate. We want to report two cases in which the size of the wrist ganglion was decreased by using electroacupuncture. One patient presented with a chronic ganglion for six years and the other patient presented with a recently occurred acute ganglion. We applied electroacupuncture for 20 minutes once a week for eight weeks to both of them. Afterwards, the size of the wrist ganglion diminished in the follow-up sonography and the accompanying pain was also relieved. Herein we report both cases along with a review of the relevant literature.
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spelling pubmed-40921862014-07-14 Therapeutic Approach of Wrist Ganglion Using Electroacupuncture: Two Case Reports Kim, Kyoung Min Kang, Eun Young Lee, Sung Hoon Jung, A Young Nam, Doo Hyoun Cheon, Ji Hwan Ann Rehabil Med Case Report A ganglion cyst is a relatively common benign tumor on the wrist. Conservative and surgical approaches have been used for its treatment. Various conservative treatment methods have been suggested such as reassurance, aspiration, sclerosant injection, and direct compression. But, there is no acceptable treatment of choice yet because each suggested method has a relatively high recurrence rate. We want to report two cases in which the size of the wrist ganglion was decreased by using electroacupuncture. One patient presented with a chronic ganglion for six years and the other patient presented with a recently occurred acute ganglion. We applied electroacupuncture for 20 minutes once a week for eight weeks to both of them. Afterwards, the size of the wrist ganglion diminished in the follow-up sonography and the accompanying pain was also relieved. Herein we report both cases along with a review of the relevant literature. Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine 2014-06 2014-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4092186/ /pubmed/25024969 http://dx.doi.org/10.5535/arm.2014.38.3.415 Text en Copyright © 2014 by Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4092186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25024969
http://dx.doi.org/10.5535/arm.2014.38.3.415
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