De Quervain's disease treatment in AL-Muthana city
Author(s): Jasim Hasan Imaraha
Abstract:
A retrospective study of eighty-two wrists in seventy-eight consecutive patients with De Quervain's disease were treated in AL-Muthana city between 1st January 2019 and 1st January 2025.
In our study, the disease was found to be more in female (83.3%) and it's increas in association with diabetes mellitus (19.2%) raise the suspension of hormonal etiology in nature but the exact cause is not settled.
De Quervain's disease is rare in children (6.4%) in this study but there is no age group immune against this disease.
From this study appear to suggest that local steroid injection and thumb Spica for 3-4 weeks is recommended as first line of treatment whle surgery is reserved for cases which shows no response to the conservative methods or shows improvement but recurrence occurs later.
