The treatment of Dupuytren's contracture with flexor tendon sheath involvement-the sliding volar flap.
When the flexor tendon sheath must be opened to release a Dupuytren's contracture of the finger, one is sometimes left with an exposed flexor tendon. If the initial incisions in the finger are made to create a proximally based flap, adequate skin is left to cover the defect in the flexor tendon sheath and a split-thickness skin graft can be placed distally where the sheath has not been violated.
D004387:Dupuytren Contracture / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013710:Tendons / Q000601:surgery*