Displaced Dorsal Metaphyseal Cortex Associated with Delayed Extensor Pollicis Longus Tendon Entrapment in a Pediatric Smith's Fracture

Overview

Journal J Surg Orthop Adv

Date 2013 May 1

PMID 23628574

Citations 3

Authors

Alfred A Mansour 3rd

Jeffry T Watson

Jeffrey E Martus

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Abstract

Extensor pollicis longus (EPL) tendon entrapment has been rarely reported as a complication of closed treatment of a pediatric Smith's type distal radius fractures. This article presents the unique case of an initially functional EPL tendon that became entrapped in fracture callus in a 9-year-old boy, the youngest reported in the literature.

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