Are steroid injections effective for tenosynovitis of the hand?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1045-1047

  Graham, Jeffrey B ^a   Hulkower, Stephen D ^a   Bosworth, Michele ^a   White, Elizabeth L ^b   Gauer, Robert ^c  

^a MAHEC Family Practice Residency Program   (United States)

^b CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; IOHEXOL; LIDOCAINE; STEROID;

ATROPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DE QUERVAIN TENOSYNOVITIS; DEPIGMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FOLLOW UP; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SPLINT; TENDON SHEATH; TENOSYNOVITIS; HAND; INTRAARTICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DE QUERVAIN DISEASE; HAND; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; STEROIDS; TENOSYNOVITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37349021745     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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