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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1942;24:114-122.
© 1942 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

CALCAREOUS TENDINITIS IN THE METACARPO-PHALANGEAL REGION

William Cooper M.D.1

1 Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, New York

These eight cases of calcification in the metacarpophalangeal region of the hand have characteristic symptoms and findings, and seem to fall into the general class of calcareous tendinitis. There are other sites of calcification in the hand. That which occurs at the pisiform, probably in the tendon of the flexor carpi ulnaris seems to be the most frequent. The essential characteristics of this condition are the same.


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