Treatment for congenital synostosis of the fourth and fifth metacarpals with the hemicallotasis technique

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2061-2065

  Kawabata, Hidehiko ^a   Yasui, Natsuo ^b   Che, Yong Ho ^b   Hirooka, Atsushi ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FINGER MALFORMATION; HUMAN; MALE; METACARPAL BONE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; OSTEOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYNOSTOSIS;

BONE LENGTHENING; BONY CALLUS; CHILD; DISLOCATIONS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; METACARPUS; OSTEOTOMY; SYNOSTOSIS; TRACTION;

EID: 0030943792     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199706000-00039     Document Type: Article

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