Extensor Tendon Injuries

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 854-861

  Matzon, Jonas L ^a   Bozentka, David J ^a  

^a PENN PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Extensor tendon injury; extensor tendon mechanism; extensor tendon reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL SLIP INJURY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISTAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; EXTENSOR TENDON INJURY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; MALLET FINGER; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; ORTHOPEDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; SPLINTING; TENDON INJURY; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENDON RUPTURE;

ARM INJURIES; FINGER INJURIES; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; TENDON INJURIES; TENDONS; WRIST INJURIES;

EID: 77951538362     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2010.03.002     Document Type: Review

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