FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely orthopaedics and traumatology for eliminating an extension contracture of a wrist combined with flexion contractures and an ulnar deviation of triphalangeal fingers in the children suffering arthrogryposis. The method involves a corrective shortening extension osteotomy of metacarpal bones within distal metaphyses with excising a fragment as a trapeze. A greater base of the trapeze is directed radially.
EFFECT: method improves the gripping function by eliminating the contractures of the wrist joint and triphalangeal fingers.
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