@article{16973,
  keywords = {Fingers, Follow-Up Studies, Hand Deformities, Acquired, Humans, leprosy, Movement, Muscles, Tendon Transfer},
  author = {Brandsma W and Watson J M},
  title = {Clawfinger correction: results of extensor-flexor many tailed operation.},
  abstract = {<p>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.</p>},
  year = {1982},
  journal = {The Hand},
  volume = {14},
  pages = {307-12},
  month = {1982 Oct},
  issn = {0072-968X},
  doi = {10.1016/s0072-968x(82)80066-1},
  language = {eng},
}