Experience with a two-staged pedicled flexor tendon graft.
A two-staged technique for flexor tendon grafting in Zone 2 is described using a silicone rubber rod which is replaced at the second stage by a somersaulted superficialis tendon graft sutured end-to-end to profundus tendon at the lumbrical level. The results are analysed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000601:surgery*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006225:Hand / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012826:Silicone Elastomers; D013710:Tendons / Q000637:transplantation*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous
D012826:Silicone Elastomers