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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Rev Bras Ortop (Sao Paulo) 2023; 58(01): 108-113
DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1740294
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Treatment of Wrist Dorsal Synovial Cyst with Percutaneous Sclerotherapy Using Hypertonic Saline Solution

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Murilo Gobetti 
1   Disciplina de Cirurgia da Mão e Membro Superior do Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia da Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
,
João Baptista Gomes dos Santos 
1   Disciplina de Cirurgia da Mão e Membro Superior do Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia da Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
,
Fernando Araujo Pires 
1   Disciplina de Cirurgia da Mão e Membro Superior do Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia da Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
,
Luis Renato Nakachima 
1   Disciplina de Cirurgia da Mão e Membro Superior do Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia da Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
,
João Carlos Belloti 
1   Disciplina de Cirurgia da Mão e Membro Superior do Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia da Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
,
Flavio Faloppa 
2   Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia da Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
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Abstract

Objective To evaluate the efficacy of hypertonic saline infiltration as a sclerosing agent in the dorsal synovial cyst of the wrist.

Method Patients of both genders, aged 18 years or older, with clinical and ultrasound diagnosis of synovial cyst, and without any previous treatment were selected. Case series in which 50 patients underwent aspiration of the contents of the cyst and infiltration of the hypertonic saline solution (2 ml sodium chloride solution 20% and 1 ml of lidocaine 2%). The patients were followed up for 24 weeks, when the parameters pain, strength, range of motion, function (quickDASH and Brief Michigan question), recurrence, and complications were evaluated.

Results A total of 46 patients were evaluated for 24 weeks, 18 (39.1%) cysts evolved to resolution, and 28 (60.9%) presented recurrence. There was no statistically significant difference in the effect force or in the range of motion. There was no clinically significant difference in the scores of the questionnaires. The most frequent complications were pain and edema.

Conclusion Infiltration with hypertonic saline solution for the treatment of dorsal synovial cyst of the wrist showed a recurrence rate of 60.9%.

Keywords

sclerotherapy - synovial cyst - serum - conservative treatment

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Publication History

Received: 18 July 2021

Accepted: 20 September 2021

Article published online:
24 March 2023

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