Fritz de Quervain, MD (1868–1940): Stenosing tendovaginitis at the radial styloid process

De Quervain’s disease: efficacy of intra-sheath triamcinolone injection

“…Surgical treatment has been chosen for tenovaginitis without careful consideration, and nonsurgical treatment has not been emphasised [1]. In our series the average number of injections was 1.4, requiring 10 days, i.e., less than 2 weeks for one treatment period.…”

“…Recently, nonsurgical treatment using intra-sheath steroid injections has been reviewed [1,6,12,[14][15][16]. We performed intra-sheath injections of TC for patients with de Quervain's disease, and the efficacy rate was 94% in this study.…”

Longitudinal Split Tear of the Extensor Pollicis Brevis Tendon: Report of 2 Cases

“…This test is commonly called the Finkelstein test although he described the test as the examiner grasping the patient's thumb and quickly "abducting the hand ulnarward" to produce pain at the radial styloid. 1 Because of the familiarity of most physicians with the Eichoff test, the diagnosis of de Quervain tenovaginitis is readily made. However, numerous articles have concluded that although the sensitivity of these maneuvers is high, their specificity is poor.…”

Performing arts medicine – Instrumentalist musicians: Part III – Case histories

“…In 1895, Swiss physician Fritz de Quervain first described the disorder, which later became known as de Quervain's syndrome (de Quervain, 1997;Ahuja and Chung, 2004). The syndrome is usually defined as pathology of the tendons of the extensor pollicis brevis and the abductor pollicis longus muscles secondary to stenosis of the first dorsal compartment of the wrist.…”