title: Digital lengthening. With emphasis on distraction osteogenesis in the upper limb.
abstract: Digital lengthening, commonly practiced for hand digits of segments, seldom for those of the foot, has been much enhanced by new applications of old techniques and some surprising physiologic responses to those techniques.
authors.affiliation: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Seitz
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Dobyns
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001852:Bone Lengthening / Q000379:methods*; D016025:Bone Transplantation; D002146:Bony Callus / Q000601:surgery*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005383:Finger Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D016348:Osseointegration; D011183:Postoperative Complications