Preliminary report on a new technique to aid diagnosis of some disorders found in hands.
This preliminary report proposes to show that an objective auscultatory method exists as an aid to diagnosis of some hand conditions. The signals so produced are both distinctive and reproducible. The conditions investigated were:- Cavitation finger clicks; Trigger finger; normal crepitus and the crepitus of de Quervain's tenosynovitis.
D001314:Auscultation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007592:Joint Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013717:Tenosynovitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014159:Transducers