TY - JOUR AU - Esmaeilnejd Ganji, Seyed Mokhtar AU - Baghianimoghadam, Behnam PY - 2015/12/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Flexor Digitorum Superficialis and Flexor Digitorum Profundus with separated sheaths JF - Colombia Medica JA - Colomb Med VL - 46 IS - 4 SE - Case Report DO - 10.25100/cm.v46i4.1753 UR - https://colombiamedica.univalle.edu.co/index.php/comedica/article/view/1753 SP - 199-201 AB - <div class="section"><div class="section"><div class="section"><div id="__secid226977" class="sec sec-first"><h3>Case description:</h3><p id="__pid226980" class="p p-first-last">A 25 years old man presented with a laceration on radial side of proximal phalanx of 4<span>th</span> finger (zone II flexor) which was due to cut with glass.</p></div><div id="__secid226987" class="sec"><h3>Clinical findings:</h3><p id="__pid226990" class="p p-first-last">The sheaths of Tendons of flexor digitorum sperficialis and profundus were not the same and each tendon had a separate sheath.</p></div><div id="__secid226993" class="sec"><h3>Treatment and outcome:</h3><p id="__pid226996" class="p p-first-last">The tendons were reconstructed by modified Kessler sutures, after 15 months the patient had a 30 degrees of extension lag even after physiotherapy courses.</p></div><div id="__secid227000" class="sec sec-last"><h3>Clinical relevance:</h3><p id="__pid227003" class="p p-first-last">This is the first reported of such normal variation in human hand tendon anatomy.</p></div></div></div></div> ER -