Simple hand fractures that aren't.

Patients expect physicians to predict the future. Recognizing injuries that behave badly improves care and modulates expectations. Your antennae should deploy when you are presented with a simple fracture that isn't.

Complete rupture of the distal biceps tendon in a woman: case report.

Complete ruptures of the distal biceps tendon are rare in women. The pathogenesis and gender bias of distal biceps ruptures remain poorly understood. We report a case of a woman with a complete distal biceps rupture who had a successful 1-incision repair with bone anchors.

The outpatient treatment of pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis.

Historically, pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis has been treated with surgical debridement followed by hospitalization and administration of intravenous antibiotics. Recently, hand surgeons have treated this disorder on an outpatient basis. We retrospectively reviewed 37 patients with pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis who were managed as outpatients.