Use of endoscopy in peroneal tendons disorders

Tendoscopic management of peroneal tendon disorders

“…Tendoscopy of the peroneal tendon sheath has been attempted more than once over the last few years [7, 12, 19]. Although ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging usually reveal highly specific and sensitive accuracy rate of diagnosis of peroneal tendon disorder [1, 3, 9, 13, 15, 20], endoscopic approach still can be more sensitive in detection of concomitant pathology, allows dynamic testing of the peroneal tendons and shows better the grading of the injury or the disorder [12].…”

“…Endoscopic management of tendon sheaths has been already done before in both vitro [8, 17] and in vivo [2, 7, 11, 12, 18, 19] in an attempt to improve the accuracy of diagnosis and introduce less invasive treatment options. We present our results of endoscopic management to a variety of peroneal tendon disorders.…”