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Murine Flexor Tendon Injury and Repair Surgery
Published on: September 19, 2016
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"Reconstruction of segmental defect of flexor tendons of the wrist and hand using extensor digitorum longus"
Koushikk S Ayyappan1, Justin C R Wormald2,3, Sarah Tucker3
1University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.
Case Reports in Plastic Surgery & Hand Surgery
|March 13, 2026
Abstract:
Plastic and hand surgeons rely on traditional tendon grafts, but severe bilateral multi-level trauma may render these unusable. We report a 30-year-old man with extensive forearm loss reconstructed using the entire extensor digitorum longus tendon, nerve and vein grafts, and an ALT flap, demonstrating EDL's versatility and minimal donor morbidity.

