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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1961;43:282-283.
© 1961 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

A Foreign Body in a Tendon Sheath

Case Report

Amin Rida M.Ch. Orth. (Alex.)1

1 Alexandria, Egypt, United Arab Republic

Foreign bodies in tendon sheaths are rare. A case is reported of chronic tenosynovitis caused by a thorn found lying in the sheath of the tendon of the right extensor carpi radialis longus. This thorn had been embedded for eight years before it was discovered.


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