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Three rare causes of extensor tendon rupture
1Hand and Microsurgery Unit, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
The Journal of Hand Surgery
|November 1, 1989
Abstract:
Three unusual cases of rupture of finger extensor tendons by attrition are reported. In one instance it was associated with long-standing nonunion of a scaphoid fracture, with a posttraumatic dorsal subluxation of the lower end of the ulna in another, and with a Madelung's deformity in the third. Extensor tendon rupture has not been previously recorded in the English-language literature after the first two conditions.
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