We examined 16 finger joints (volar and dorsal, as previously described) for each of the 42 patients included in the study (a total of 672 joints for each side). Radiocarpal and intercarpal joints ...

Separately, we added the semiquantitative grades for volar and dorsal side, resulting in Volar ES (VES) and Dorsal ES (DES) of each patient. We used SPSS 16.0 package; for quantitative parameters ...