Population
68-year-old man with rice body formation in the flexor tendon sheath of the fingers without inflammatory…
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
approximately 4.5 years (until March 2009)
Authors
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Good functional recovery after rice body surgery; extends reports to non-TB patients but leaves open etiology and management.
Rice body formation in tendon sheaths can occur in non-tuberculosis patients and may be associated with spontaneous tendon rupture.
Nagasawa et al. (2009) studied this question.
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