Elbow Pathology
A 42-year-old office worker presents with 6 months of lateral elbow pain that worsens with gripping activities and using a computer mouse. She has maximal tenderness 1cm distal to the lateral epicondyle and pain with resisted wrist extension with the elbow extended (Cozen's test positive). She has had no prior treatment. Regarding lateral epicondylitis:
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Lateral epicondylitis is a degenerative tendinopathy (not true tendinitis with inflammation) primari...
Natural history is favorable with 80-90% improving with conservative treatment within 12 months; fir...
Lateral epicondylitis is an inflammatory tendinitis; the extensor digitorum communis is primarily af...
Surgical treatment is indicated after failure of 6-12 months of conservative management; options inc...
Differential diagnosis includes posterior interosseous nerve (PIN) syndrome (can coexist in 5% - rad...
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