The morbidity of the button-over-nail technique for zone 1 flexor tendon repairs. Should we still be using this technique?

Journal of Hand Surgery: European Volume

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 566-570

  Kang, Norbert ^a,b   Marsh, D ^a   Dewar, D ^a  

^a MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Button over nail; Complications; Flexor; Injury; Pullout suture; Zone 1

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL NAIL GROWTH; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BUTTON OVER NAIL TECHNIQUE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; FEMALE; FINGER AMPUTATION; FLEXOR TENDON; FLEXOR TENDON INJURY; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENDON RUPTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPUTATION; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FINGER INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TENDON INJURIES; TENODESIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55949098214     PISSN: 17531934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1753193408090118     Document Type: Article

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