WRIST-TENDON COMPARTMENTS

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SUMMARY

1. Six compartments arranged around the wirst.

2. Thumb tendons: held by thick retinaculum. Thickening causes DeQuervein's tenosynovitis.

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Image: Case courtesy of Dr Roberto Schubert, Radiopaedia.org. From the case rID: 14241 [Accessed 18 Nov. 2018].


Reference(s)

R.M.H McMinn (1998). Last’s anatomy: regional and applied. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Gray, H., Carter, H.V. and Davidson, G. (2017). Gray’s anatomy. London: Arcturus.