Closed mallet thumb injury treated surgically: a case report

In this report a case of closed mallet thumb injury is described, which was diagnosed clinically and indication for surgical treatment was confirmed with ultrasound examination. The EPL-tendon was successfully reconstructed with an excellent result. We propose a mandatory ultrasound examination of a...

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Autores principales: Arvanitakis, Michael, Calcagni, Maurizio, Giesen, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5404658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28470031
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2017.1308830
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spelling pubmed-54046582017-05-03 Closed mallet thumb injury treated surgically: a case report Arvanitakis, Michael Calcagni, Maurizio Giesen, Thomas Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg Case Report In this report a case of closed mallet thumb injury is described, which was diagnosed clinically and indication for surgical treatment was confirmed with ultrasound examination. The EPL-tendon was successfully reconstructed with an excellent result. We propose a mandatory ultrasound examination of all closed mallet thumb injuries. Taylor & Francis 2017-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5404658/ /pubmed/28470031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2017.1308830 Text en © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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