Tenosynovial chondromatosis of the wrist: A case report. 2023

C Chaves, and P Bellemère
Centre de Chirurgie de la Main, Clinique du Pré, 72000 Le Mans, France; Lymphoedema Center, Clinique Ambroise Paré, 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Electronic address: med@cchaves.com.

We report the case of an 80-year-old woman who presented with an asymptomatic slowly growing mass in the dorsal aspect of her right wrist. Radiographs revealed a snail-shaped radiopaque structure. Surgical exploration and excision revealed a calcified lesion over the extensor digitorum communis. Histopathological analysis confirmed the diagnosis of tenosynovial chondromatosis. At the last follow-up, four years after surgery, the patient was asymptomatic and free of recurrence. Practitioners and hand surgeons should be aware of the dorsal involvement and evocative radiological calcifications of tenosynovial chondromatosis, which is a rare benign soft tissue neoplasm that affects all tendon sheaths of the hand.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000369 Aged, 80 and over Persons 80 years of age and older. Oldest Old
D012983 Soft Tissue Neoplasms Neoplasms of whatever cell type or origin, occurring in the extraskeletal connective tissue framework of the body including the organs of locomotion and their various component structures, such as nerves, blood vessels, lymphatics, etc. Neoplasm, Soft Tissue,Neoplasms, Soft Tissue,Soft Tissue Neoplasm
D014953 Wrist The region of the upper limb between the metacarpus and the FOREARM. Wrists
D014955 Wrist Joint The joint that is formed by the distal end of the RADIUS, the articular disc of the distal radioulnar joint, and the proximal row of CARPAL BONES; (SCAPHOID BONE; LUNATE BONE; triquetral bone). Joint, Wrist,Joints, Wrist,Wrist Joints
D015838 Chondromatosis, Synovial Rare, benign, chronic, progressive metaplasia in which cartilage is formed in the synovial membranes of joints, tendon sheaths, or bursae. Some of the metaplastic foci can become detached producing loose bodies. When the loose bodies undergo secondary calcification, the condition is called synovial osteochondromatosis. Henderson-Jones Syndrome,Osteochondromatosis, Synovial,Reichel's Syndrome,Synovial Chondromatosis,Synovial Chondrometaplasia,Synovial Osteochondromatosis,Chondromatoses, Synovial,Chondrometaplasia, Synovial,Chondrometaplasias, Synovial,Henderson Jones Syndrome,Osteochondromatoses, Synovial,Reichel Syndrome,Reichels Syndrome,Syndrome, Henderson-Jones,Syndrome, Reichel's,Synovial Chondromatoses,Synovial Chondrometaplasias,Synovial Osteochondromatoses
D018210 Chondromatosis Multiple formation of chondromas. (Dorland, 27th ed) Chondromatoses

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