title: A comparative study on tendon transfer surgery in patients with radial nerve palsy.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Lesions in peripheral nerves are highly prevalent in the upper extremity. The present study compares different tendon transfer surgeries in patients with radial nerve palsy.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifty patients with radial nerve palsy were randomly selected among patients who referred to Tehran 15(th) Khordad Hospital during 2006-2011. They were divided into two groups of 17 and 33 subjects. Single tendon transfer surgery was performed on 33 and ternary tendon transfer surgery on 17 patients and were compared.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No significant difference was noticed in the range of motion of metacarpophalangeal joint, proximal interphalangeal joint and distal interphalangeal joint joints between the two groups. There was also no significant difference in the results of single tendon and ternary tendon transfer surgeries between the two groups. There was no need to sacrifice three tendons in tendon transfer surgeries on patients with radial nerve palsy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Single tendon transfer surgery may help establishing a finger extension while indicates to its considerable advantages of surgical simplicity, shorter surgery time, less complications and surgery scars.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hand Surgery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;
authors.forename: Masoud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yavari
authors.affiliation: Department of Hand Surgery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;
authors.forename: Hossein Ali
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Abdolrazaghi
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Therapy, 15th Khordad Hospital, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Azadeh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Riahi
keywords: Flexor carpi radialis; Flexor carpi ulnaris; Palmaris longus; Pronator teres; Radial nerve palsy; Tendon transfer