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Clawfinger Correction: Results of Extensor—Flexor Many Tailed Operation

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The patient with paralytic clawfingers is greatly handicapped. This is especially true for the leprosy patient who needs his hands to earn a living. The inability to ‘reach out’ with the fingers is the most serious functional loss in an ulnar palsy. This study is a follow up of 155 hands whereby the extensor carpi radialis longus was employed to substitute for this lumbrical-interosseus function. The best results were obtained in hands with full assisted extension. Retropulsion of the metacarpal arch occurred in all hands with total loss of ulnar function.

The Hand, Original Series, Volume 14, No. 3, 307-312 (1982)
DOI: 10.1016/S0072-968X(82)80066-1


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