INTRODUCTION: Injuries to the finger flexor tendons are common, and sometimes result in considerable disability. Although flexor tendon healing follows similar stages of wound healing as other tissues, tendinous tissues require a longer time to heal than other connective tissues, which may be due to their hypocellular and hypovascular nature. The nutrition of flexor tendon comes from intratendi...

To revisit foetal development of the deep flexor tendons of the hand and foot, we examined the paraffin-embedded histology of 20 mid-term foetuses at 8-15 weeks of estimated gestational age (35-118 mm crown-rump length or CRL). At 8-9 weeks, in front of the metacarpal bones, the flexor pollicis longus and flexor digitorum profundus (FDP) muscles provided a plate-like, common tendon from wh...

BACKGROUND Longitudinal tears in the lateral aspect of the deep digital flexor tendon are the most common causes of pain localised to the equine digital flexor tendon sheath. However conventional ultrasonographic techniques provide limited information about acute lesions. Ultrasonographic contrast agents are newly developed materials that have contributed to advancement in human diagnostic imag...

introduction: topographic anatomy of the tendons and ligaments in healthy cases provides a normal atlas to diagnose abnormalities. the aim of this study was to provide ultrasonography description of the palmar tendons and ligaments of the anatoly donkey. methods: the metacarpal regions of 6 healthy anatoly donkeys were prepared for ultrasonography and divided to 6 levels (1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b...

This study aimed to investigate the preferential collagen fibril alignment in unloaded and loaded tendons using elastic scattering spectroscopy. The device consisted of an optical probe, a pulsed light source (320-860 nm), a spectrometer and a PC. Two probes with either 2.75 mm or 300 microm source-detector separations were used to monitor deep and superficial layers, respectively. Equine super...

Interposition of the flexor hallucis longus tendon through the subtalar joint was identified intraoperatively during a triple arthrodesis for a symptomatic adult clubfoot in a patient who had a posteromedial release as a child. The mechanism for this occurrence is unknown, although it is likely that the flexor hallucis longus tendon deviated into the subtalar joint during the early postoperativ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the activity of wrist extensor muscle, correlating with wrist motion during gripping after flexor tendon repair. DESIGN Cross-sectional clinical measurement study. SETTING Laboratory for biomechanics and rehabilitation. SUBJECTS A total of 11 patients submitted to rehabilitation by early passive motion of the fingers with wrist flexion position were evaluated after 8...

Even though fractures of the distal radius are the most common fracture of the upper extremity, complications concerning the injury are relatively poorly reported. It is thought that flexor tendon ruptures associated with distal radius fracture are caused by attrition by rough surfaces of malunited fracture and irritation by fixation implants. The majority of reported cases usually presents wit...