{"id":39852,"date":"2018-12-14T11:55:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T10:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.yuveo.eu\/lexikon\/tendovaginitis-stenosans-de-quervain-tendon-sheath-inflammation\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:47:54","slug":"tendovaginitis-stenosans-de-quervain-tendon-sheath-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/tendovaginitis-stenosans-de-quervain-tendon-sheath-inflammation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tendovaginitis stenosans \/de Quervain &#8211; tendon sheath inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Housewife&#8217;s thumb<\/h2>\n<div class=\"inhalt\">\n<p><strong>Terminology:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The word tendovaginitis is made up of the word stems Tendo (Latin for to tighten) and vaginitis (inflammation of the vagina). It is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/hand\/tendinitis\/\">inflammation of the tendon sheath<\/a>. In principle, it can occur anywhere on the body where there is tendon gliding tissue.  <\/p>\n<h2>Forms of tendovaginitis in hand surgery<\/h2>\n<p>Typical tendovaginitis usually affects the flexor tendon sheaths, as these are exposed to particular stress.<\/p>\n<p>Special forms are <strong>tendovaginitis stenosans<\/strong> (constricting) of the fingers and <strong>tendovaginitis de Quervain<\/strong> of the 1st extensor tendon compartment.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more information on this in the following articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/hand\/snap-fingers\/\">Tendovaginitis stenosans = Snapping finger = Snapping finger<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/tendovaginitis-de-quervain-housewifes-thumb\/\">Tendovaginitis de Quervain = housewife&#8217;s thumb<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special forms of tendovaginitis (tendon sheath inflammation) are tendovaginitis stenosans of the fingers and tendovaginitis de Quervain of the 1st extensor tendon compartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","encyclopedia-tag":[],"class_list":["post-39852","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/39852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-tag?post=39852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}