TY - BOOK AU - Mohammad Ahmad Abdelaleem AU - Ahmed Essam Mohamed Kandile , AU - Ibrahim Taha Soliman Elgeaidy , TI - Current trends in management of trapezio metacarpal osteoarthritis / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohammad Ahmad Abdelaleem , KW - CT KW - MC KW - OA N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Orthopedic Surgery; Issued also as CD N2 - TMC joint arthritis is the second most common degenerative joint disease in the hand commonly affecting women in their fifth to sixth decades of life surgical reconstruction of the degenerative basal joint is indicated when conservative measures have failed to relieve pain and improve thumb function and includes corrective osteotomy , arthrodesis , trapeziectomy alone and ligament reconstruction tendon interposition arthroplasty ER -