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Robert W Jordan1, Naeil Lotfi1, Gunaratnam Shyamalan1
1Trauma & Orthopaedic Department, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital , Birmingham, UK.
Case Reports in Plastic Surgery & Hand Surgery
|June 3, 2016
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A 20-year-old man suffered a closed rupture of both flexor tendons in the middle finger while playing rugby. Primary repair of the flexor digitorum profundus and excision of the flexor digitorum superficialis was performed. At follow up he reported a Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand score of 0 and unrestricted return to activities.
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