Delayed rupture of the extensor pollicis longus tendon: a retrospective study
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R P Noordanus1, J H Pot, P B Jacobs
1Academic Hospital Free University, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Eight patients with delayed rupture of the extensor pollicis longus tendon are presented. Six had suffered from a fracture of the wrist without dislocation. This is in our opinion a predisposing factor in the etiology of delayed tendon rupture. Our treatment of choice is transfer of the extensor indicis proprius tendon. In all patients satisfactory thumb function was restored.
