Table 4.

US diagnosis of synovial hypertrophy and hyperemia 1 week and 4 weeks after US-guided injection of corticosteroids

		1 week post-injection		4 weeks post-injection
Compartments	Number injected	Synovial hypertrophy	Synovial hyperemia	Synovial hypertrophy	Synovial hyperemia
Radio-carpal joints	12	6/12 (50%)	3/12 (25%)	2/12 (17%)	1/12 (8%)
Midcarpal joints	5	3/5 (60%)	0/5 (0%)	1/5 (20%)	1/5 (20%)
Tendon sheaths	4	0/4 (0%)	0/4 (0%)	0/4 (0%)	0/4 (0%)
All compartments	21	9/21 (43%)	3/21 (14%)	3/21 (14%)	2/21 (9%)