Hand osteoarthritis (OA) is a prevalent, heterogeneous disorder that was, until recently, often overlooked in clinical research. In this Review, the authors provide an overview of hand OA, describing the diagnosis, clinical burden, disease course and associated risk factors, with particular attention to the key features of the hand OA subsets thumb base OA and erosive OA.
- Margreet Kloppenburg
- Wing-Yee Kwok
