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Two-stage tendon sheath reconstruction using sublimis tendon and silicone Penrose drain after severe purulent flexor
Kazufumi Sano1, Kazumasa Kimura1, Tomohisa Hashimoto1
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Dokkyo Medical University Koshigaya Hospital, 2-1-50 Minami-Koshigaya Koshigaya, Saitama, 343-8555 Japan.
Hand (New York, N.Y.)
|January 16, 2014
Abstract:
Two-stage tendon sheath reconstruction, a method of pulley reconstruction using the sublimis tendon and a pseudosheath formed with a silicone Penrose drain wrapped around the profundus tendon, is a new technique for improving a poor functional prognosis after purulent flexor tenosynovitis.
