Ultrasound-guided Wrist Arthroscopy
Arthroscopy is a surgical procedure used to diagnose and treat problems inside a joint. Arthroscopy utilizes a small fibre optic instrument called an arthroscope that allows the surgeon to look in the joint without any major incisions into tissue or muscle.
Ultrasound Scanner allows for clear and real-time visualization of the needles during their whole path.
Indeed, to combine the complementary features of sonography and arthroscopy to make the arthroscopic resection of wrist ganglions a safer and more reliable surgery surgeons tend to use a 13 MHz high-frequency linear probe such as the Mini Linear Handheld WiFi Ultrasound Scanner SIFULTRAS-3.5.
SIFULTRAS-3.5 has many benefits from reducing puncture complications to increasing patient satisfaction. This device aids Doctors and specialists from primary to secondary care to master Joint injections and Musculoskeletal. Thus, providing more accurate needle placement in all the body joints; shoulder, elbow, hip, knee, ankle, foot, hand and wrist.
The ultrasound helps the doctor to confirm that the arthr oscopic shaver goes toward the ganglion cyst and not toward the artery, nerve, or tendon.
Furthermore, at the end of the surgical procedure, complete resection of the stalk and creation of the shunt between the ganglion cyst and the joint are confirmed by both the Ultrasound and arthroscopy.
With its needle-guided advantage, SIFULTRAS-3.5 provides real-time guidance to control the needle insertion path, needle depth or angle without the risk of damaging adjacent structures
Ultrasound-guided wrist arthroscopy provides several advantages for surgeons, including visualization of the ganglions and ganglion stalk, as well as of the arthroscopic shaver and adjacent structures such as nerves, vessels, and tendons to perform surgery safely.
References: Ultrasound-Guided Wrist Nerve Block, Sonography-Assisted Arthroscopic Resection of Volar Wrist Ganglia: A New Technique, Ultrasound-guided procedures around the wrist and hand: how to do,
