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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/70647| Title: | A case of simultaneous digital flexor and extensor tendon injuries in zone I |
| Authors: | Branford, Olivier Alexandre Azzopardi, Ernest A. Iyer, Srinivasan S. |
| Keywords: | Fingers -- Wounds and injuries -- Case studies Tendons -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients Fingers -- Surgery Traffic accidents |
| Issue Date: | 2010 |
| Publisher: | Sage |
| Citation: | Branford, O. A., Azzopardi, E. A., & Iyer, S. (2010). A case of simultaneous digital flexor and extensor tendon injuries in zone I. Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume), 35(8), 678-679. |
| Abstract: | A 27-year-old left-handed man sustained an injury to his dominant middle finger from airbag deployment during a low speed road traffic accident. On examination the finger was swollen, with a mallet finger deformity. Radiographs confirmed an associated dorsal fracture fragment with no palmar subluxation of the distal interphalangeal joint (Fig 1). The finger was placed in a mallet finger splint for 6 weeks, at which stage it was found that there was no active flexion of the distal interphalangeal joint. This aroused clinical suspicion of a ruptured flexor digitorum profundus tendon and this diagnosis was confirmed by ultrasonography. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/70647 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacM&SAna |
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