Case of painful crepitation in the course of the radial extensor muscles of the carpus / [Robert Knox].

  • Knox, Robert, 1791-1862.
Date:
[©1837?]
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Credit: Case of painful crepitation in the course of the radial extensor muscles of the carpus / [Robert Knox]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE OF PAINFUL CREPITATION IN THE COURSE OF THE RADIAL EXTENSOR MUSCLES OF THE CARPUS. READ TO THE MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY IN EDINBURGH. British surgeons, engaged in extensive practice, are but little in the habit of recording: interesting cases occurring to them, and to this I ascribe the fact of there being no recorded instance of an accident, which I must suppose to be at least as common in this country as in France. The accident to which I allude is the formation of air apparently within the synovial sheaths of the radial extensors of the carpus, chiefly situated at that part where they are in contact with the extensors of the thumb which play over them. I feel desirous of learning from my fellow members if such cases be rare or the opposite; so frequent, perhaps, and deemed so trifling that they do not merit publication. I cannot, however, find any notice of them in British writers, although it is quite possible that such may exist and have escaped me. I shall first relate the case, and next offer a very few remarks respecting it. A friend of mine, a middle aged man, tolerably muscular, whilst amusing himself with angling for the greater part of a day, used a fishing rod, not only very heavy altogether, but likewise top-heavy. Towards the afternoon he observed that the right fore-arm had become painful and swollen just over the part where the extensors of the thumb cross the radial extensors of the carpus; and applying the hand to the part, was surprised to find a most distinct and extensive crepitation extending upwards and downwards to the extent of four or five inches. On applying my hand to the part, I felt precisely what has been just described, that is, a painful crepitating