title: Flexor tendon rupture 55 years following a wrist laceration.
abstract: Flexor tendon rupture at the wrist or palm is rare. We present a case of index flexor digitorum profundus rupture at the level of the wrist associated with the site of a laceration 55 years earlier. Associated pathology included a large neuroma-in-continuity of the median nerve and adhesions involving the flexor digitorum superficialis tendons. The rupture was treated by tenodesis to the relatively unaffected flexor digitorum profundus to the adjacent long finger.
authors.affiliation: Hand Surgery Section, Department of Orthopedics, Denver Health Medical Center, 777 Bannock St, MC 0188, Denver, CO 80204-4507, USA. steve.peterson@dhha.org
authors.forename: Steven L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Peterson
authors.forename: Kagan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ozer
mesh_terms: D002921:Cicatrix / Q000150:complications; D003240:Connective Tissue Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009463:Neuroma / Q000150:complications; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D013710:Tendons / Q000601:surgery*; D013997:Time Factors; D014954:Wrist Injuries / Q000150:complications*