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.
BT - The Hand C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7152381?dopt=Abstract DA - 1982 Oct DO - 10.1016/s0072-968x(82)80066-1 IS - 3 J2 - Hand LA - eng N2 -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.
PY - 1982 SP - 307 EP - 12 T2 - The Hand TI - Clawfinger correction: results of extensor-flexor many tailed operation. VL - 14 SN - 0072-968X ER -