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BIOMECHANICAL EXPLANATION OF A SIMULTANEOUS CLOSED RUPTURE OF BOTH FLEXOR TENDONS IN THE SAME DIGIT
Author(s) -
Lanzetta Marco,
Conolly W. Bruce
Publication year - 1996
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.1445-2197.1996.tb01158.x
Subject(s) - medicine , numerical digit , flexor muscles , ring finger , little finger , anatomy , surgery , thumb , biochemistry , chemistry , arithmetic , mathematics , gene
Closed ruptures of both normal flexor tendons in the same finger are extremely rare, only nine cases having been reported in the literature. The authors describe the case of a patient who sustained a closed rupture of both flexor digitorum profundus and flexor digitorum superficialis of the ring finger, following a forced hyperextension injury. The present paper highlights the importance of the mechanism of injury and explains its biomechanical basis. The patient was treated by a two‐stage reconstruction of the flexor digitorum profundus and regained full flexion and extension of the finger.