Ganglion Cyst

<bold><italic>Figure 10.29.</bold></bold> Ganglion cyst: nontender, fluctuant nodule contiguous with a tendon sheath. Here, it is the flexor tendon sheath; it moves with the tendon and is transilluminable.

<bold>Figure 37-3</bold> Ganglion cyst. Swelling over the volar surface of the right wrist in a school-aged child. (Courtesy of Mary L. Brandt, MD.)

Rupture of all extensor tendons of the digits and wrist. A wrist fusion is necessary to reconstruct this wrist.

FIG. 25.3. Ganglion cyst of the tendon sheath of the flexor carpi radialis at the wrist.

<bold><italic>Figure 22-20</bold> Ganglion cyst.</bold> These small benign cysts occur near joints, especially the wrist. This particular one was removed because it interfered with wrist motion.