Soft Tissue Lesions
A 28-year-old woman presents with a 6-month history of a non-tender swelling on the dorsum of her right wrist. The lump is more prominent with wrist flexion and becomes less visible with extension. It transilluminates and is firm but compressible. There is no history of trauma. Regarding ganglion cysts of the wrist:
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Ganglion cysts are the most common soft tissue tumors of the hand and wrist, accounting for 60-70% o...
Dorsal wrist ganglia are the most common type (60-70%), arising from the scapholunate interval; they...
Volar wrist ganglia arise equally from any volar wrist joint and are less common than dorsal ganglia...
The pathogenesis involves mucoid degeneration of periarticular connective tissue with formation of m...
Occult or intraosseous ganglia can occur without a visible external mass; they may present with wris...
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