A woman recently took up employment in a factory. She is a machinist, and for 6 hours a day she has to move a lever repeatedly, which requires that she extend and flex her right wrist joint. At the end of the second week of her employment, she began to experience pain over the posterior surface of her wrist and noticed a swelling in the area.
-The following statements concerning this patient are correct except which?

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The wrist joint is not diseased in this patient. The swelling on the posterior surface of the wrist region was caused by the excessive production of fluid in the synovial sheaths of the extensor tendons secondary to repeated and excessive extensor movements, a condition called traumatic tenosynovitis.

A Woman Recently Took Up Employment in a Factory