From Fingers to Digits

Psoriatic arthritis is a destructive inflammatory arthritis that can affect the peripheral and axial skeleton of patients with psoriasis. Plain radiography has formed an important ...

Principles of reconstruction of upper limb injuries 192Surgical incisions 196Suturing 197Wound care 200Soft tissue healing 203Grafts 204Flaps 208Useful flaps for upper limb reconst...

♦ Digital replantation is the best reconstruction available for the correct indications♦ Amputated thumbs, multiple fingers, and paediatric replants are the strongest indications♦ ...

Distal arm weakness may be caused by involvement of the intrinsic hand muscles (interossi, thenar and hypothenar muscles, lumbricals) or extrinsic hands muscles (long fingers flexo...

When we first meet ten-year-old Zena Hamelson, she is sitting in a chair staring blankly at the wall, flapping her hands, repeatedly straightening and bending her legs, compulsivel...

How do we live well? The first sentence of Grace and Gravity raises the fundamental question that constantly occupies our minds—and of all those who lived before us. Paradoxically,...

General principles 362Rheumatoid arthritis 364Rheumatoid wrist 368Surgical treatment of the rheumatoid wrist 370Metacarpophalangeal joints 374Rheumatoid fingers 378Rheumatoid thumb...

♦ Late reconstructive procedures may improve function if there is persisting paralysis after nerve injury♦ Transfer of a functioning musculotendinous unit to the tendon of the para...