Abstract
Trigger fingers are frequently seen in the out-patient clinic. There are two kinds of operative procedure for the trigger fingers: one is the open method, which involves incising enough skin to do a wide resection of tendon sheath and the other is the closed method, which involves inserting a small scalpel through the skin and cutting the tendon sheath subcutaneously. Ninety-two trigger fingers were classified according to our preoperative grading system and treated by the later procedure. The results were evaluated excellent, good, fair and poor. Eighty-one fingers were evaluated as excellent, 8 fingers as good, 3 fingers as fair and no fingers as poor. There were no complications with neuro-vascular injury and infection after treament. We concluded that this procedure was minimally invasive, effective, convenient and safe.
