Table 1 The studies that assessed the efficacy of steroid injections for trigger finger .

	Year	No of patients	No of digits	Cure after one treatment (%)	Total cure rate after ⩾1 treatments (%)	Average follow‐up (months)
Clark et al1	1973	50	76	55	82	44
Rhodes2	1984	39	53	66	72	25
Marks and Gunther3	1989	71	104	84	93	41
Newport et al4	1990	235	302	49	73	35
Anderson and Kaye5	1991	58	77	61	88	55
Benson and Ptaszek6	1992	102	109	60	76	18