DeQuervain's Disease Wheeless

Description: Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics a stenosing tenosynovitis of APL & EPB tendons (first compartment) at the styloid process of the radius; - inflammation causes thickening & stenosis of synovial sheath of first compartment & pain w/ tendon movement; - most common in women between 30 and 50 years; - pts develop pain over radial styloid process (& sometimes forearm & thumb);