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.
BT - The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1249113?dopt=Abstract DA - 1976 Jan IS - 1 J2 - J Bone Joint Surg Am LA - eng N2 -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.
PY - 1976 SP - 59 EP - 66 T2 - The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume TI - Correction of paralytic claw finger in leprosy by capsulorrhaphy and pulley advancement. VL - 58 SN - 0021-9355 ER -