title: [Treatment of the windblow hand deformity].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To discuss the treatment of the windblow hand deformity.
  
  
  METHODS
  We treat 18 patients with operations step by step. First phase: to improve the thumb function; Second phase: shift the flexor digitorum superficialis of the middle and little finger to improve the ulnar drift of the digits; Third phase : to solve the flection deformity of the palm and digits.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We follow the patients for 6 - 72 months, only lost 3.11 of 15 patients have the thumb function recovered. 9 patients had their ulnar drift of the digits corrected, 2 patients partly corrected, 4 have relapse. 5 among the 15 patients were offered second operation, to have the ulnar arthrosis bursa contracted, using abduction splint, after rehabilitation 4 patients have the deformity corrected, 1 has partly corrected.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Operation step by step is better for the complex windblow hand deformity, solve one major problem each time,and systemic rehabilitation therapy is needed for satisfied curative effect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hand Surgery, the Affiliated Fengtian Hospital, Shenyang Medical University, 110024, China. Shenyang.
authors.forename: Yan-Sheng
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Chang-Tai
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Xin
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Ying-Bo
authors.initials: YB
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006228:Hand Deformities, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*