Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10083312 The Journal of Hand Surgery 2005 5 Pages PDF
Abstract
An exposed cross-lock, an embedded cross-lock, and a circle lock at tendon-suture junctions had similar locking power. Circle-lock repairs without cross-locking components produce tensile strength similar to cross-locking repairs. The findings of this study suggest that the creation of cross-configurations in locking repairs used conventionally by many surgeons is not essential to repair strength and that circle locking is as efficient as cross-locking in the repair of lacerated flexor tendons.
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