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THE MERCK MANUAL MEDICAL LIBRARY: The Merck Manual of Medical Information--Home Edition
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A number of different disorders may affect the hands, including ganglia, deformities, disorders related to nerves or blood vessels, injuries, and infections. Some other disorders that affect the hands are covered elsewhere in the book, including fractures, osteoarthritis, tendinitis and tenosynovitis, de Quervain's syndrome, Raynaud's syndrome, finger clubbing, and certain birth defects.

Last full review/revision March 2008 by David R. Steinberg, MD

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