The length of flexor tendon grafts.
The distance between the origin of the lumbrical muscle and the insertion of the flexor digitorum profundus tendon was measured at surgery in forty-eight patients. It was found that this distance was predictable and could be estimated without measurement prior to operation. A standard technique of flexor tendon grafting is described where this distance equals the length of the tendon graft.
D006225:Hand / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D013710:Tendons / Q000637:transplantation*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous