Spontaneous rupture of the extensor pollicis brevis tendon in a baseball pitcher: A case report

A 15-year-old pitcher on a boys’ Little League baseball team suffered spontaneous rupture of the extensor pollicis brevis (EPB) tendon. Since the EPB tendon was, at surgery, found hypoplastic and non-functional, transfer of the extensor indicis proprius (EIP) tendon was carried out. After a 6-month...

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Autores principales: Fujimoto, Takuya, Tanase, Yoshihiro, Oribe, Takashi, Watanabe, Yasushi
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Informa Healthcare 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2852763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19736611
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03009730902989323
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author Fujimoto, Takuya
Tanase, Yoshihiro
Oribe, Takashi
Watanabe, Yasushi
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description A 15-year-old pitcher on a boys’ Little League baseball team suffered spontaneous rupture of the extensor pollicis brevis (EPB) tendon. Since the EPB tendon was, at surgery, found hypoplastic and non-functional, transfer of the extensor indicis proprius (EIP) tendon was carried out. After a 6-month period of rehabilitation and follow-up, the patient was able to resume playing baseball. Although rupture of the EPB is rare, transfer of the EIP tendon is one of the treatments of choice for such injuries.
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spelling pubmed-28527632010-05-19 Spontaneous rupture of the extensor pollicis brevis tendon in a baseball pitcher: A case report Fujimoto, Takuya Tanase, Yoshihiro Oribe, Takashi Watanabe, Yasushi Ups J Med Sci Case Report A 15-year-old pitcher on a boys’ Little League baseball team suffered spontaneous rupture of the extensor pollicis brevis (EPB) tendon. Since the EPB tendon was, at surgery, found hypoplastic and non-functional, transfer of the extensor indicis proprius (EIP) tendon was carried out. After a 6-month period of rehabilitation and follow-up, the patient was able to resume playing baseball. Although rupture of the EPB is rare, transfer of the EIP tendon is one of the treatments of choice for such injuries. Informa Healthcare 2009-09 2009-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2852763/ /pubmed/19736611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03009730902989323 Text en © Upsala Medical Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited.
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Fujimoto, Takuya
Tanase, Yoshihiro
Oribe, Takashi
Watanabe, Yasushi
Spontaneous rupture of the extensor pollicis brevis tendon in a baseball pitcher: A case report
title Spontaneous rupture of the extensor pollicis brevis tendon in a baseball pitcher: A case report
title_full Spontaneous rupture of the extensor pollicis brevis tendon in a baseball pitcher: A case report
title_fullStr Spontaneous rupture of the extensor pollicis brevis tendon in a baseball pitcher: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous rupture of the extensor pollicis brevis tendon in a baseball pitcher: A case report
title_short Spontaneous rupture of the extensor pollicis brevis tendon in a baseball pitcher: A case report
title_sort spontaneous rupture of the extensor pollicis brevis tendon in a baseball pitcher: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2852763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19736611
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03009730902989323
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