Advice on ganglions is flawed

Patients come to hand specialists seeking removal, and the quoted article by Dias and Buch makes it quite clear that the selection of patients to be managed by masterly neglect was not impartial or objective: "the surgeon's preference dictated" whether surgery or observation was chosen. 2 The case made for non-operative management is further weakened by the manner of arrival at figures for post-surgical recurrence, said by Dias and Buch to have been 42%.