[Pathogenesis of stenosing ligamentitis]

On the basis of complex examination of women with stenosing ligamentitis, including investigations of hormonal background in accordance with the clinical criteria, hormonal smears, radioimmunological assay of the initial vegetative tonicity, blood circulation by means of rheography, it has been concluded that the stenosing ligamentitis is the local expression of general dystrophy of the connective tissue due to hormonal shift, pathology of the vegetative nervous system and the circulatory system.