Type II de Quervain’s disease: depicting subcompartmentalisation with ultrasound

Abstract

DESCRIPTION A 62yearold female patient presented with left radial side wrist pain for the past 4 weeks. She denied any history of trauma. On physical examination, she had swelling and tenderness to palpation in the first dorsal compartment with a positive Figure 1 Axial view of the first compartment at the level of the radial styloid process, showing the thickened retinaculum (*) embedding only the extensor pollicis brevis (blue arrow). The abductor pollicis longus (green arrow) is unremarkable.