TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Forearm
KW - Hand Deformities, Acquired
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Metacarpus
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Tendon Transfer
KW - Thumb
AU - Brown H
AU - Getty P
AB - <p>Two relatively simple procedures and can improve thumb function in leprosy (Hansen's disease): one provides opposition for the thumb by an indicis proprius transfer; the other provides grasp for the hand lacking digits by phalangizing the first metacarpal.</p>
BT - The Journal of hand surgery
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/501054?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1979 Sep
DO - 10.1016/s0363-5023(79)80037-4
IS - 5
J2 - J Hand Surg Am
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Two relatively simple procedures and can improve thumb function in leprosy (Hansen's disease): one provides opposition for the thumb by an indicis proprius transfer; the other provides grasp for the hand lacking digits by phalangizing the first metacarpal.</p>
PY - 1979
SP - 432
EP - 8
T2 - The Journal of hand surgery
TI - Leprosy and thumb reconstruction by opponensplasty or phalangizing the first metacarpal.
VL - 4
SN - 0363-5023
ER -