Flexor tendon rupture 55 years following a wrist laceration.

Flexor tendon rupture at the wrist or palm is rare. We present a case of index flexor digitorum profundus rupture at the level of the wrist associated with the site of a laceration 55 years earlier. Associated pathology included a large neuroma-in-continuity of the median nerve and adhesions involving the flexor digitorum superficialis tendons. The rupture was treated by tenodesis to the relatively unaffected flexor digitorum profundus to the adjacent long finger.

Citation

Steven L Peterson, Kagan Ozer. Flexor tendon rupture 55 years following a wrist laceration. Journal of plastic, reconstructive & aesthetic surgery : JPRAS. 2006;59(5):529-31

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PMID: 16631561

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