Tendon grafting for multiple extensor tendon ruptures of fingers in rheumatoid hands

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 27 B, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 326-328

  Sotereanos, D G ^a,b   Gobel F ^a   Vardakas, D G ^a   Sarris, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCILLAMINE; METHOTREXATE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FINGER; FINGER JOINT; HAND FUNCTION; HAND PALM; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT FUNCTION; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPLINT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TENDON GRAFT; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENDON RUPTURE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 0036693593     PISSN: 02667681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/jhsb.2002.0755     Document Type: Article

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