title: Management of ganglion cysts of the hand by simple aspiration.
abstract: A prospective study has shown that aspiration treatment of ganglion cysts of the wrist and hand can safely remove 85% of these tumors if one, two or three separate treatments are administered. There is a decided cost savings when this treatment is compared with surgical excision, even when the expense of surgical excision for aspiration treatment failures is added to the equation.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006225:Hand; D006801:Humans; D013396:Suction; D013581:Synovial Cyst / Q000628:therapy*; D014953:Wrist