[The "candlestick" technique for the correction of certain types of congenital metacarpal synotosis].
Metacarpal synostosis is a rare congenital hand malformation requiring only occasionally a surgical correction. However in case of divergent epiphyses there is a progressive accentuation of the deformity. In the "Y" type of symmetrical synostosis, the authors propose a trapezoidal osteotomy with upside down relocation allowing realignement of the epiphyses without distant bone donor site.
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Medina
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Bollecker
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Lorea
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D006226:Hand Deformities / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008663:Metacarpus / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000379:methods*; D013580:Synostosis / Q000601:surgery*