Surgical correction of severe hammer digit syndrome: a case report.
Survivors of a stroke are forever in a battle for complete recovery. Signs and symptoms of the initial stroke may remain. Patients who has had a stroke may retain some of their initial manifestations, e.g., hemiparesis. Limbs that were initially paralyzed will usually retain signs of upper motor neuron damage. This patient demonstrated such a situation, and we felt that the proper treatment in this case of severe hammer digit syndrome was modified Lambrinudi fusions.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005531:Foot Deformities, Acquired / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D013577:Syndrome; D014034:Toes / Q000601:surgery*