title: Extrusion of bone anchor suture following flexor digitorum profundus tendon avulsion injury repair.
abstract: Flexor digitorum profundus (FDP) zone I tendon avulsion injury is traditionally repaired with a pullout suture technique. More recently, bone anchor sutures have been used as a viable alternative and have largely replaced areas in hand surgery where pullout suture technique was once required. To date, there have been very few complications reported related to bone anchor suture use in FDP tendon reattachment to the bone. We report a very unusual case of extrusion of bone anchor through the nailbed, 6 years after zone I FDP tendon avulsion injury repair and a brief review of literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland. willhct@yahoo.com
authors.forename: William H C
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Tiong
authors.forename: Sean T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: O'Sullivan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005383:Finger Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009262:Nails; D053441:Suture Anchors / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013708:Tendon Injuries / Q000601:surgery*