Trigger fingers in children.

Abstract

Twelve children with triggering of 17 digits other than the thumb were seen in our department during an 8-year period. There were 8 children with single-finger involvement; the remaining patients had more than 1 triggering finger. Seven fingers in 5 children were not treated surgically; 1 of these patients had residual triggering in all 3 involved fingers. Ten fingers in 7 children were treated surgically. In contrast to the operative findings in children with triggering thumbs, no nodules were found in these cases. The surgical procedure necessary to relieve the triggering was often more extensive than an incision of the A-1 pulley alone and required separation of the inserting slips of the flexor digitorum superficialis tendon and release of the proximal A-2 pulley.