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Continuous postoperative catheter irrigation is not necessary for the treatment of suppurative flexor tenosynovitis
S Lille1, T Hayakawa, M W Neumeister
1Institute for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Southern Illinois University, Springfield, USA.
Journal of Hand Surgery (Edinburgh, Scotland)
|August 29, 2000
Abstract:
The records of 75 patients admitted with pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis at two academic centers were reviewed. The functional outcomes of patients who received intraoperative irrigation only (n = 20) and those that had both intraoperative irrigation and continuous postoperative irrigation (n = 55) were compared. There were no statistically significant differences between the outcomes in the two groups.