The Management of Partial Zone II Intrasynovial Flexor Tendon Lacerations

Conservative management of transverse partial flexor digitorum profundus tendon lacerations in zone 2

MM Al-Qattan, HM Clarke, V Bowen. Conservative management of transverse partial flexor digitorum profundus tendon lacerations in zone 2. Can J Plast Surg 1995;3(3):157-160. The experience with six patients managed conservatively following transverse partial flexor digitorum profundus tendon lacerations in zone 2 is presented. Four patients who were mobilized using elastic traction experienced n...

Zone II Flexor Tendon Injury

DESCRIPTION A 14-year-old adolescent boy presented 3 days after lacerating his hand with a knife. He complained of inability to flex his little finger and had decreased sensation on the ulnar aspect of this digit.

Intrasynovial flexor tendon injuries and repair

Edsfeldt, S. 2017. Intrasynovial flexor tendon injuries and repair. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1307. 67 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9838-2. Complications after surgical repair of intrasynovial flexor tendon injuries in the hand occur despite advanced suture techniques and structured postoperative rehabil...

Recent progress in intrasynovial flexor tendon repair and rehabilitation.

[Flexor tendoplasty with a tendon prosthesis for zone II flexor tendon injuries].

OBJECTIVES We evaluated two-staged flexor tendoplasty with tendon prosthesis in patients with flexor tendon injuries in which conventional tendon grafting would fail to yield an acceptable result. METHODS We performed flexor tendoplasty with tendon prosthesis in 37 hands of 31 patients (24 males, 7 females; mean age 23 years; range 4-46 years). Twenty-six patients had penetrating injuries, fo...