Percutaneous Surgical Treatment of Trigger Finger

Abstract

Objective To evaluate the efficacy of percutaneous release therapy for patients with trigger finger.

Methods We obtained the hospital records of 120 patients who underwent percutaneous release, and their final status was evaluated by telephone.

Results The sample was composed of 84 (70%) female and 36 (30%) male patients, with a mean age of 55.4 (range: 30–79) years, and a mean follow-up of 28.6 (range: 6–74) months. Successful results were obtained in 118 (98.3%) patients. In the first week after the procedure, release was performed through the open surgical method in two patients who had complaints of re-entanglement in their fingers. No limitation to the joint range of motion was detected in any finger.

Conclusions Percutaneous release has advantages over the open surgery method in the surgical treatment of trigger finger, due to its low cost, ease of application, performance outside operating room conditions, and similar complication rates.

Keywords

tendons - trigger finger disorder/pathology - trigger finger disorder/surgery - trigger finger disorder/therapy

Work carried out at the Orthopedics and Traumatology Clinic, Sultan Abdülhamid Han Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Üsküdar/İstanbul, Turkey.

Publication History

Received: 23 June 2023

Accepted: 28 April 2024

Article published online:
04 September 2024

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