What Are the Most Common Causes of Hand Swelling?

Hand tumors can occur in all tissues, including skin, subcutaneous tissue, tendons, bones, blood vessels, and nerves. It can be a primary tumor or a metastatic tumor. There are both benign and malignant tumors. The cause is unknown and is related to factors such as age, gender and ethnicity. The diagnosis must be based on histological examination. All tumors should be completely removed during treatment, and malignant patients should be excised from the surrounding tissues, including bone tissue, and those with large scope should be amputated and amputated. ^[1]

Hand tumor

From newborn babies to 80-year-olds, the incidence of various types of tumors is related to age.

Benign soft-tissue tumors and tumor-like tumors are the most common in hand tumors, accounting for 82% of the total, which are high-frequency hand tumors. The prevalence is hemangiomas, followed by tendon sheath cysts, xanthomas, synovial tumors, hemangiomas, lipomas and schwannomas, epidermal cysts and degenerative cysts.

Benign bone tumors of the hand accounted for 13.8% of the total, but the incidence of systemic bone tumors is not uncommon. According to statistics, among the benign bone tumors in the whole body, hand bone tumors are second only to the femur and tibia, ranking third. Chondromas are common in hand bone tumors, accounting for 71.3% of the total, followed by osteochondroma in 15.3%, and other benign bone tumors are rare in the hand.

The incidence of hand malignant tumors is low, accounting for 4.2% of the total, of which soft tissue malignancies are common, accounting for 91.1%. Melanoma has the highest incidence in soft tissue malignancies. This kind of tumor is more common under the nails and rare in other parts. The next are skin squamous cell carcinoma and synovial sarcoma, which are closely related to the hand structure and function.

Hand tumor tendonoma

Tendonoma is the most common hand tumor. It statistically most often occurs on the dorsal side of the wrist. Its size sometimes changes. It is a joint or tendon adventitia that accumulates some sticky joint fluid. If just removing these fluids does not cure the tendonoma, it may still recur after a period of time, so surgical resection and repair of the deep fascia of the tendon can prevent recurrence.

Subtumor cyst of hand

Hypocyst is also a common hand tumor. It is often located on the palm and grows slowly. It is formed because the skin of the palm is damaged, causing the epithelial cell structure to be squeezed into the dermis or subcutaneous tissue, and the epithelial cells The structure continuously secretes secretions such as oil and fat, forming cysts (also known as pink tumors). The treatment method must be surgically removed to cure, and it is also good after healing.

Tumour of finger

Metaphalangeal joint fluid tumors are commonly found in the distal phalanges of the fingers of elderly people. The mechanism of their occurrence is similar to that of tendonoma, but because the skin at the distal phalanx is thin, the myxoma often ruptures and the distal phalanx is also infected. Because the location is close to the nail bed, and sometimes the shape of the nail is also affected, the recommended treatment is surgical removal of the tumor and local flap reconstruction. If the patient is severely infected, the wound should be taken care of for ten days after debridement and then sutured.

Large cell tumor of the hand

Large cell tumors are often produced by the adventitia of the tendon after injury. They are the second most common tumor of the hand. Depending on the location of the injury, there may be huge cell tumors in the fingers and palms where synovial fluid is produced. It is usually Located in deep tissues and sometimes even compressing bone tissue, X-ray or nuclear magnetic resonance examination can be used. The treatment is also surgical resection, but the tendon and the tumor must be carefully separated to avoid recurrence. In order to prevent the tendon from sticking, early rehabilitation and active exercise are necessary.

Hand tumor lipoma

Lipomas are common in other mesoderm tissues of the body, but are relatively rare in the hands. Lipomas are solid tumors that do not hurt themselves, but because their volume is compressed into the surrounding tissue, it can cause acid Anesthesia or pain can be cured by surgical removal.