A Technique for the Management of Concomitant Scaphotrapezoid Arthritis in Patients With Thumb Metacarpotrapezial Arthritis: Interposition Arthroplasty With a Capitate Suture Anchor

Tech Hand Up Extrem Surg. 2017 Jun;21(2):71-74. doi: 10.1097/BTH.0000000000000155.

Abstract

Scaphotrapezoid (ST) arthritis is a common source of pain and disability that typically presents with concomitant basilar thumb arthritis. ST arthritis is often under recognized and under diagnosed as a source of continued pain after successful basilar thumb arthroplasty. Untreated, symptomatic ST arthritis can cause failure of an otherwise successfully executed thumb carpometacarpal arthroplasty due to persistent pain, which is frustrating to the patient and surgeon. Although multiple surgical treatment options have been described for basilar thumb carpometacarpal joint arthritis, there is no gold standard for the treatment of ST arthritis. We describe a surgical technique with a minimal trapezoid excision and interpositional arthroplasty using an acellular allograft secured with a suture anchor in the capitate.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Arthroplasty / instrumentation
  • Arthroplasty / methods*
  • Arthroplasty / rehabilitation
  • Carpometacarpal Joints / diagnostic imaging
  • Carpometacarpal Joints / surgery*
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Osteoarthritis / diagnostic imaging
  • Osteoarthritis / rehabilitation
  • Osteoarthritis / surgery*
  • Osteotomy / methods
  • Pain Measurement
  • Range of Motion, Articular / physiology
  • Scaphoid Bone / surgery
  • Suture Anchors*
  • Thumb / physiopathology
  • Thumb / surgery
  • Trapezoid Bone / surgery*
  • Treatment Outcome