Correction of paralytic claw finger in leprosy by capsulorrhaphy and pulley advancement.
Paralytic claw-finger deformity in leprosy was corrected by metacarpophalangeal capsulorrhaphy and fibrous flexor pulley advancement in ninety fingers in thirty-seven hands. Sixty-eight of these were analyzed after one to four years' follow-up. The overall results were: good in forty-two, fair in seventeen, and poor in nine. This procedure was done in selected patients in whom for various reasons good results of tendon transfer were not assured.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005384:Finger Joint / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D010243:Paralysis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011182:Postoperative Care