@article{3129,
  keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Female, Finger Joint, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, leprosy, Male, Paralysis, Postoperative Care},
  author = {Palande D D},
  title = {Correction of paralytic claw finger in leprosy by capsulorrhaphy and pulley advancement.},
  abstract = {<p>Paralytic claw-finger deformity in leprosy was corrected by metacarpophalangeal capsulorrhaphy and fibrous flexor pulley advancement in ninety fingers in thirty-seven hands. Sixty-eight of these were analyzed after one to four years' follow-up. The overall results were: good in forty-two, fair in seventeen, and poor in nine. This procedure was done in selected patients in whom for various reasons good results of tendon transfer were not assured.</p>},
  year = {1976},
  journal = {The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume},
  volume = {58},
  pages = {59-66},
  month = {1976 Jan},
  issn = {0021-9355},
  language = {eng},
}