FIELD: medicine, traumatology, orthopedics, palm surgery.
SUBSTANCE: transarticularly one should fix 2-5 fingers at bending the main phalanges up to the angle of 100° with needles or dowels applied through the bottom of the main phalanges and capita of metacarpal bones to obtain stable fibrous or osseous ankylosis in fixed joints to better restore patient's fingers grasping function.
EFFECT: higher efficiency of restoration.
3 dwg, 1 ex
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Dates
2005-07-20—Published
2003-10-28—Filed