Extensor Tendon Injuries
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Little originality is claimed for this paper, which reports some of the cases treated at the Londoii Hospital during the last year. There are nearly 24,000 attendances in the Orthopaedic and ACcident Department each year, of which about 6,000 are accident cases. Since no l)eds can he reserved for these patients the vast majority have to be treated as out-patients afl(l ( ) )erate(1 011 under local anaesthesia. Apart from domestic accidents, most of the injured hand cases come from the surrounding tailoring and wood-working industries. The title of this paper was deliberately chosen to exclUde the more (Iramatic major mutilations. So-called ‘ ‘ minor “ injuries of the hand are responsible for an enormous loss of working time, and by laying down standard methods of treatment we have found that we are returning patients to work earlier than in previous years. \Vith the l)t1l)1icati0I of Rank and Wakefield’s 1)00k ( I 953) stressing the
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