title: Angulation occurring during the distraction lengthening of digits.
abstract: Distraction lengthening of congenitally short digits is an accepted reconstructive procedure in hand surgery. A previously unreported complication of angulation occurring during distraction was treated by open reduction and insertion of a longitudinally placed, smooth Kirschner wire. The wire functioned as a spindle along which the distraction of the osteotomized bone fragments was continued. A satisfactory result was achieved.
authors.affiliation: Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, Springfield, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Wenner
mesh_terms: D000652:Amniotic Band Syndrome; D001852:Bone Lengthening / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000601:surgery*; D006228:Hand Deformities, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000379:methods