Long time follow-up of flexor tendons of the hand after reconstructive operations. Part 1. Monitoring method.

Monitoring method for patients who undertook the reconstructive operation of flexor tendons of the hand is described. Pre-operative condition, operation finding, surgery execution, post-operative condition, rehabilitation as well as the situation during the graduated checks up after 6 and 9 months; 2, 6 and 10 years were noted down into standard forms.

Microsurgical reconstruction of a stiff jointless thumb after an avulsion injury.

We demonstrate three types of reconstruction of a stiff jointless thumb after an avulsion injury. In the first type, the skeleton of the thumb was harvested from the iliac crest or from a rib, the cutaneous cover was formed from a forearm flap on the a. radialis.