Citation

van der Lei B, van der Linden E, Mooyaart EL, Klasen HJ. J. Trauma 1995; 38(5): 836-840.

Affiliation

Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Hand Surgery, Medical Centre Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7760425

Abstract

Fracture of the sesamoid bone of the thumb is a rare injury. In this report three additional cases with fracture of an ulnar sesamoid bone of the thumb are reported. The anatomic considerations, the mechanisms of injury, the differential diagnoses, and management are discussed with the English-language literature.

Language: en