Tendon Transfers Flashcards
When possible, protective sensation should be restored
prior to tendon transfer
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The timing of late tendon transfers
takes place 6 to 18 months following
injury
nerve regeneration rate of
approximately 1 mm/day or 1 in/month
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sensation should be restored prior to
tendon transfer whenever possible
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Without protective sensation
brain will tend to
exclude the insensate limb or digit(s) from functional activities
In the
case of radial nerve injury, the area of sensory loss is not critical to
hand function,
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A single transferred tendon should not be used to perform two distinct active functions,
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a single tendon transfer can
perform one active function combined with different passive functions
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Power transfers require a strong donor muscle whereaspositional transfers do not require strength
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Transfer of
a muscle to a new location typically results in a loss of one grade of
strength
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Boyes’s rule for tendon excursions
Flexors and extensors of the wrist = 3cm
the extensors of the digits=5CM
digital flexors = 7CM
The excursion of some muscles can be increased
through proximal dissection of the muscle belly, particularly in the
case of a brachioradialis (BR) transfer
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the excursion of the
transfer can be increased by 2 to 3 cm through the tenodesis effect of
wrist flexion or extension
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wrist flexor for finger extension or wrist extensor
for finger flexion (Synergy)
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The PIN is primarily a motor nerve
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sensory component of the radial nerve need special consideration in radial nerve palsy
F. not a critical sensory loss and typically does
not require treatment.
Options for radial nerve transfere
The pronator teres (PT) to the ECRB muscle (wrist extensors)
The flexor carpi ulnaris (FCU) is used to restore digital extension
The
palmaris longus (PL) is transferred to the EPL, which is rerouted
volarly to provide more palmar abduction. If the PL is absent, a slip
of the ring finger FDS tendon can be transferred to the EPL
Merle di\ubigne described a slight modification of prevous options what was that ?
he used the same principle except he used FCU for both EDC and EPL
and PL for EPB and APL
Starr originally described use of the FCR instead of the FCU to
restore digital extension
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Boyes and Brand advocated using the FCR
instead of the FCU, why?
FCU was more important to wrist flex.ion,
too strong
Did not provide adequate excursion
in radial nerve palsy, the FCU is the only remaining ulnar-sided wrist motor, and its sacrifice eliminates active ulnar deviation (dart-thrower’s motion)
What is the Superficialis (Boyes) Transfer
■ PT to ECRB and extensor carpi radialis longus
■ FCR to abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis
■ Flexor digitorum superficialis of long finger (FDS-III) to EDC
■ Flexor digitorum superficialis of ring finger (FDS-IV) to EPL and
extensor indicis proprius
Superficialis (Boyes) Transfer did not use the palmaris longus
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Jones advocates using FDS of the long finger in case of palmaris absent
F FDS of the ring finger
Boyes later argued that neither wrist flexor was suitable to restore
digital extension
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Why Boyes not convinced with wrist flexors?
as their limited excursion (33 mm) leaves them reliant on tenodesis to fully extend the digits
and simultaneous wrist and finger extension is not possible
Median nerve at the proximal forearm supply PT, FDS, FCR, and PL before giving AIN
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giving
off the anterior interosseous nerve approximately 6 to 8 cm distal
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the FDP to the long finger is often mantianed with median nerve palsy by an ulnar nerve contribution
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Thumb IP joint flexion Index and long finger DIP and PIP joint flexion was lost in low palsy
F (high palsy only)
Following
median nerve injury, In thump MCP joint flexion, may be maintained how?
by the
ulnar-innervated deep head of the FPB.
A patient with a unilateral,
nondominant loss of opposition may compensate quite well with
MCP joint flexion alone
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How we can restore the sensation in the radial side of the hand?
Bertelli has described sensory transfers in
an attempt to restore sensation in high median nerve injuries
Three thenar intrinsic muscles contribute to the
thumb opposition: the opponens pollicis, the APB, and the FPB wich is most important ?
the APB is the most
important muscle in thumb opposition.
the ideal vector for
an opposition transfer should parallel this muscle, from the pisiform
to the insertion of the APB on the abductor tubercle at the base of the
thumb proximal phalanx
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Options for pully reconstruction of the opposition reconstruction (APB)
loops of the FCU tendon at or
near its insertion on the pisiform, the palmar aponeurosis, transverse
carpal ligament, and the FCU tendon itself
options for restoring opposition (opponensplasty)
Transfer of the PL tendon Camitz transfer
The FDS opponensplasty
The abductor digiti minimi (ADM) c
the EIP opponensplasty