Clinical Study of Tendon Transfer on Traumatic or Subcutaneous Rupture of the Tendon in the Hand

We have performed tendon transfers do 28 traumatic or subcutaneous ruptured tendons of 17 patients for recent 9 years. We did follow up study on 20 tendons of 13 patients. As a result, 8 patients were excellent, 4 patients were good, and a patient was poor. In our procedure, we transfer the tendon to the recipient digit preserving original tension with neutral position of the wrist and extended position of the fingers. We anastomose the transferred tendon overlapping to the central slip at the distal portion of the MP joint in case of extensor tendon rupture. In conclusions, our procedure of tendon transfer is simple to perform, and has beneficial effects to standardize the tension of the transferred tendon and to make extension power act directly on the MP joint.