Hand/Wrist News

Orthopedics Today features eight stories and videos of importance to emerge from the Impact of Sports 2014 Summit and the American Society for Surgery of the Hand Annual Meeting.

Ultrasound can be used to confirm carpal tunnel syndrome diagnosis with better specificity and equal sensitivity in certain patients compared with electrodiagnostic testing, according to study results.

Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation has announced the full U.S. release of the Integra Freedom Wrist Arthroplasty System.

BOSTON — Revision metacarpophalangeal arthroplasty resulted in “reasonable” 5- and 10-year implant survival rates, according to a speaker here.

BOSTON — The use of processed nerve allografts for the repair of large-gap nerve injuries produced meaningful functional recovery, defined as S3/M3 on the MRCC scale, in most repairs, according to data presented here.

BOSTON — A cross-sectional study that compared patients with at least 2 years of follow-up who underwent primary surgery of the ulnar nerve for cubital tunnel syndrome to a group that underwent revision showed poorer objective and patient-reported outcomes in the revision cohort.

BOSTON — A minimum 10-year follow-up of pediatric patients who underwent radial polydactyly reconstruction shows good functional and subjective outcomes and an 18% revision rate.

BOSTON — Research presented here sheds new light on the natural evolution and features of Kienböck’s disease.

Most often, primary skeletal tumors found in the hand are of cartilage origin, followed by bone cysts and osteogenic tumors, according to study results.

Although cast alteration after casting for distal radius fractures is common, early cast alteration was safe and not associated with loss of alignment, according to study results.