Table 1.

Traumatic and Atraumatic Causes of ACTS

Traumatic causes

Colle's fracture, burns, ulnar non-union, minor trauma on anticoagulants, injury caused by wrist motion (hyperextension, twisting), MRI-related electrical burn, carpals dislocation, snake bites, cat bites, stonefish envenomation, hemophilia A with trauma, iatrogenic, penetrating wrist trauma, blunt wrist trauma

Atraumatic causes

Infection, spontaneous hemorrhage on anticoagulation, peritendinitis calcarea, autoimmune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis), hyperthyroidism, tophaceous gout, pseudogout, post–upper respiratory tract infection, Rubella immunization, decompression illness, aneurysm of the superficial palmar arch, thrombosis persistent median artery, tumescent fluid with lipodystrophy, post-transplantation, secondary to medications, idiopathic, periarticular calcifications, atypical hand muscles, diabetic myonecrosis, myxofibrosarcoma, malignancy