Unusual Closed Traumatic Avulsion of Both Flexor Tendons in Zones 1 and 3 of the Little Finger

Closed tendon avulsion of both flexor tendons in the same finger is an extremely rare condition. We encountered the case of a patient who presented a rupture of the flexor digitorum profundus in zone 1 and flexor digitorum superficialis in zone 3 in the little finger. This occurrence has not been re...

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Autores principales: Soro, Marie-Aimée Päivi, Christen, Thierry, Durand, Sébastien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5021460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27656304
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6837298
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author Soro, Marie-Aimée Päivi
Christen, Thierry
Durand, Sébastien
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Durand, Sébastien
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description Closed tendon avulsion of both flexor tendons in the same finger is an extremely rare condition. We encountered the case of a patient who presented a rupture of the flexor digitorum profundus in zone 1 and flexor digitorum superficialis in zone 3 in the little finger. This occurrence has not been reported previously. We hereby present our case, make a review of the literature of avulsion of both flexor tendons of the same finger, and propose a treatment according to the site of the ruptures.
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spelling pubmed-50214602016-09-21 Unusual Closed Traumatic Avulsion of Both Flexor Tendons in Zones 1 and 3 of the Little Finger Soro, Marie-Aimée Päivi Christen, Thierry Durand, Sébastien Case Rep Orthop Case Report Closed tendon avulsion of both flexor tendons in the same finger is an extremely rare condition. We encountered the case of a patient who presented a rupture of the flexor digitorum profundus in zone 1 and flexor digitorum superficialis in zone 3 in the little finger. This occurrence has not been reported previously. We hereby present our case, make a review of the literature of avulsion of both flexor tendons of the same finger, and propose a treatment according to the site of the ruptures. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5021460/ /pubmed/27656304 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6837298 Text en Copyright © 2016 Marie-Aimée Päivi Soro et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Unusual Closed Traumatic Avulsion of Both Flexor Tendons in Zones 1 and 3 of the Little Finger
title Unusual Closed Traumatic Avulsion of Both Flexor Tendons in Zones 1 and 3 of the Little Finger
title_full Unusual Closed Traumatic Avulsion of Both Flexor Tendons in Zones 1 and 3 of the Little Finger
title_fullStr Unusual Closed Traumatic Avulsion of Both Flexor Tendons in Zones 1 and 3 of the Little Finger
title_full_unstemmed Unusual Closed Traumatic Avulsion of Both Flexor Tendons in Zones 1 and 3 of the Little Finger
title_short Unusual Closed Traumatic Avulsion of Both Flexor Tendons in Zones 1 and 3 of the Little Finger
title_sort unusual closed traumatic avulsion of both flexor tendons in zones 1 and 3 of the little finger
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5021460/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6837298
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