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Glossary Investigation

Ulnar fovea sign

Also known as fovea sign

Tenderness on pressing the examiner's thumb into the soft spot between the ulnar styloid and flexor carpi ulnaris that reproduces the patient's pain. In Tay and Berger's arthroscopic series it was 95 per cent sensitive and 87 per cent specific for foveal disruption of the radioulnar ligaments or an ulnotriquetral ligament injury; the two are separated clinically by the stability of the distal radioulnar joint.

Articles mentioning this term

  1. FESSH preparation

    Clinical examination of the hand and wrist

    Hand and wrist examination for FESSH candidates: how accurate the Phalen, Tinel, scratch collapse, Elson, Watson, grind, fovea and Allen tests really are.

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