[Painful extensor digitorum brevis]


Published online: Jun 27 1996

J N Kuhlmann, M Mimoun, R Mosseri, and S Baux.

Service de Chirurgie Orthopédique et traumatologique, Plastique et esthétique, Hôpital Rothschild, Paris.

Abstract

A boxer suffered from a painful extensor digitorum brevis muscle. The pathology involved the proximal insertion on the lunate and caused a specific form of carpal instability. On excision of the muscle the pain disappeared.

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