Ultrasound-guided Wrist Arthroscopy

Arthroscopy is a surgical procedure used to diagnose and treat joint problems. Arthroscopy makes use of a small fiber-optic instrument called an arthroscope, which allows the surgeon to look inside the joint without making any major incisions into tissue or muscle.

The Ultrasound Scanner enables clear and real-time visualization of the needles throughout their entire path.

Indeed, in order to combine the complementary features of sonography and arthroscopy in order to make arthroscopic resection of wrist ganglions a safer and more reliable surgery, surgeons typically use a 13 MHz high-frequency linear probe, such as the Mini Linear Handheld WiFi Ultrasound Scanner Mini Linear Handheld Wireless Ultrasound Scanner ML1.

The ML1 has numerous advantages, including reduced puncture complications and increased patient satisfaction. This device assists doctors and specialists from primary to secondary care in performing joint injections and musculoskeletal procedures. As a result, needle placement in all body joints is more precise; shoulder, elbow, hip, knee, ankle, foot, hand, and wrist.

The ultrasound allows the doctor to ensure that the arthroscopic shaver is directed toward the ganglion cyst rather than an artery, nerve, or tendon.

Furthermore, both ultrasound and arthroscopy confirm complete resection of the stalk and creation of the shunt between the ganglion cyst and the joint at the end of the surgical procedure.

The ML1 ‘s needle-guided advantage provides real-time guidance to control the needle insertion path, depth, or angle without the risk of damaging adjacent structures.

Ultrasound-guided wrist arthroscopy offers surgeons several advantages, including the ability to visualize the ganglions and ganglion stalk, as well as the arthroscopic shaver and adjacent structures such as nerves, vessels, and tendons, allowing them 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,