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 ...

Our first pilot study on this matter (2005) stated that volar synovitis is more correlated to clinical examination than dorsal one. [14] Several studies have addressed volar synovitis so far.