title: Atypical triggering at the wrist due to intratendinous infiltration of tophaceous gout.
abstract: This is a report of a 41-year-old male with triggering of the long finger flexor digitorum superficialis tendon at the wrist secondary to tophaceous gout. The tophus was severely infiltrating the tendon, and a tenotomy of the FDS tendon was performed. Preoperatively, the lesion could not be distinguished from a neoplasm.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Dokkyo Medical University, Koshigaya Hospital, 2-1-50 Minami-koshigaya, Koshigaya, Saitama 343-8555, Japan, prssano@nifty.com
authors.forename: Kazufumi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sano
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authors.lastname: Kohakura
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authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Satoru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ozeki
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