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The operative repair of chronic nontraumatic extensor tendon subluxations in the hand
A R Vaccaro1, P Kupcha, L H Schneider
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Hand Clinics
|August 1, 1995
Abstract:
The authors study the literature and the surgical treatment in chronic nonrheumatoid cases. Their technique employs one-half of the extensor digitorum communis tendon as a tether on the central extensor tendon, recentralizing it over the metacarpophalangeal joint.