Closed tendon sheath irrigation for pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis*
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Presented at the Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Dallas, Texas, Feb. 21-23, 1978.
Copyright © 1978 American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.