[Flexor tendon repair: a short story].
This short story of flexor tendon repair aims to illustrate hesitations and wanderings of this surgery. Obviously tendon repair was very early considered, but it developed and diffused rather lately. It became a routine practice only in 20th century. This was due on the one hand, in Occident, to the Galen's dogmatic interdiction, on the other hand, to the repair difficulties of this paradoxical structure. Actually tendon is made of fibroblasts and collagen (sticky substances), and then its only goal is to move. According to this necessity, whatever the used techniques are, gliding is the final purpose. Technical evolutions are illustrated by historical contributions to flexor tendon surgery of several "giants" of hand surgery.
Clinique de chirurgie de la main est des brûlés, hôpital Albert-Michallon, CHU de Grenoble, 38243 Grenoble cedex 9, France. Electronic address: fmoutet@chu-grenoble.fr.
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Moutet
Clinique de chirurgie de la main est des brûlés, hôpital Albert-Michallon, CHU de Grenoble, 38243 Grenoble cedex 9, France.
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Corcella
Clinique de chirurgie de la main est des brûlés, hôpital Albert-Michallon, CHU de Grenoble, 38243 Grenoble cedex 9, France.
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Clinique de chirurgie de la main est des brûlés, hôpital Albert-Michallon, CHU de Grenoble, 38243 Grenoble cedex 9, France.
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D006230:Hand Injuries / Q000601:surgery; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D009985:Orthopedics / Q000266:history*; D013708:Tendon Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D013710:Tendons / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000601:surgery*
Flexor tendon; Hand; Histoire; History; Main; Repair; Réparation; Tendons fléchisseurs