Answer: VizD Challenge Week of 2/18/08

There was NO WINNER this week!

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Questions:
1. What is the diagnosis?
2. What are Kanavel's 4 cardinal signs?


Answer:
1. Flexor tenosynovitis
2. Kanavels's signs

• finger held in slight flexion
• sausage digit
• tenderness along flexor tendon sheath
• pain with passive extension of the digit
  

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