Anderson Suzanne E, Steinbach Lynne S, De Monaco Damir, Bonel Harald M, Hurtienne Yvonne, Voegelin Esther
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital of Bern, Inselspital, Freiburgstrasse, Bern CH-3010, Switzerland.
AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2004 Mar;182(3):719-24. doi: 10.2214/ajr.182.3.1820719.
The purpose of our study was to describe the MRI findings and interesting clinical aspects of a postpartum overuse syndrome of the wrist and thumb, de Quervain's tenosynovitis, or "baby wrist."
Mothers may experience a wrist and thumb overuse syndrome, which can be diagnosed by MRI with an increase in size and low signal intensity on both T1- and T2-weighting, in and around the first dorsal tendon sheath compartment of the wrist.