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The Surgery of the Wrist in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Author(s) -
HOOPER JONATHAN
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1972.tb06761.x
Subject(s) - medicine , wrist , rheumatoid arthritis , surgery , decompression
The experience of the surgery of the wrist in rheumatoid arthritis over a six‐year period (1964–1970) at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in Southern California is reported. One hundred and sixteen operations were performed on 75 patients. The procedures fell into two groups: (I) Decompression and removal of exuberant synovium; and (2) Reconstruction of deranged wrists. In the latter group it was felt that wrist fusion was an unsatisfactory procedure, and that the operation of pseudofusion gave a much more satisfactory functional result.
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