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Background There are a variety of postoperative immobilization and therapy options for patients with basal joint arthritis. Although prior systematic reviews have compared surgical procedures used to treat basal joint arthritis, none to our knowledge compares therapy protocols for this condition, which are considered an important part of the treatment.Questions/purposes (1) We sought to determine whether differences in the length and type of postoperative immobilization affect clinical results after basal joint arthritis surgery. (2) We also compared specific therapy protocols that were prescribed. (3) Finally, we evaluated published protocols to determine when patients were released to full activity to see whether these appeared to affect clinical results. Methods A systematic review of English-language studies in the PubMed and Cochrane databases was performed. Studies were then reviewed to determine what postoperative immobilization and therapy protocols the authors used and when patients were released to full activities. A total of 19 studies were identified using the search criteria.

To our knowledge, ES of the hand in an adult woman has not yet been reported in the literature, and a lack of recognition of this condition might be secondary to the absence of features traditionally associated with malignant bone neoplasms. A broader differential diagnosis after intervention failures offers the opportunity for diagnosis and appropriate treatment.