Mansour Alfred A, Watson Jeffry T, Martus Jeffrey E
Division of Pediatric Orthopaedics, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee 34232-9565, USA.
J Surg Orthop Adv. 2013 Summer;22(2):173-5. doi: 10.3113/jsoa.2013.0173.
Extensor pollicis longus (EPL) tendon entrapment has been rarely reported as a complication of closed treatment of a pediatric Smith's type distal radius fractures. This article presents the unique case of an initially functional EPL tendon that became entrapped in fracture callus in a 9-year-old boy, the youngest reported in the literature.
