FINKELSTEIN OR EICHHOFF'S TEST: A DESCRIPTIVE ERROR IN THE LITERATURE FOR DECADES? When testing for De Quervain's disease/paratendonitis of the extensor pollicis brevis and abductor pollicis longus, the Finkelstein's Test has been described as the hallmark of this disease. However, the Finkelstein Test has been described in a wrong manner in the English literature for three decades according to Elliot et al. (1992) - so basically for more than 50 years already. This error is actually the so-call

FINKELSTEIN OR EICHHOFF'S TEST: A DESCRIPTIVE ERROR IN THE LITERATURE FOR DECADES? When testing for De Quervain's disease/paratendonitis of the extensor pollicis brevis and abductor pollicis longus, the Finkelstein's Test has been described as the hallmark of this disease. However, the Finkelstein Test has been described in a wrong manner in the English literature for three decades according to Elliot et al. (1992) - so basically for more than 50 years already. This error is actually the so-call

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