title: Trigger thumb of de Quervain's disease.
abstract: Triggering of the thumb due to de Quervain's Disease has not been reported in an adult, and only one case in a child has been documented in the literature. Two cases of trigger thumb that were due to stenosing tenosynovitis in which the extensor pollicis brevis tendon triggered in a separate fibro-osseous tunnel within the first dorsal compartment are cited.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006227:Hand Deformities, Acquired / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013717:Tenosynovitis / Q000150:complications*; D013933:Thumb