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The use of the latissimus dorsi muscle as an active motor unit for digital flexion
1Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Journal of Hand Surgery (Edinburgh, Scotland)
|February 1, 1989
Abstract:
A technique is described to restore flexion of the fingers and thumb using a latissimus dorsi muscle island as an active motor unit. It has been performed in a ten-year-old child with a satisfactory result.