Ainhum: treatment with intralesional steroids.
Ainhum is a rare constricting band disease, usually affecting digits and resulting in spontaneous amputation. Prompt symptomatic relief and latter partial resolution of the fibrotic band followed intralesional steroid injection in the case presented.
D000328:Adult; D000387:Ainhum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009549:Nigeria / Q000208:ethnology; D011859:Radiography; D014222:Triamcinolone Acetonide / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014481:United States
D014222:Triamcinolone Acetonide