The purpose of this paper is to describe the complications encountered after using a muscle-splitting 2-incision technique to repair avulsed distal biceps tendons. A retrospective review of 78 consecutive anatomical repairs performed through a muscle-splitting 2-incision technique between 1981 and 1998. Complications developed after 23 (31 percent) of the 74 primarily repaired tendons, including sensory nerve paresthesias, transient posterior interosseous nerve palsy, persistent anterior elbow pain, heterotopic ossification, superficial wound infection, one rerupture, and loss of forearm rotation. No radioulnar synostoses were observed.
Copyright remains with the authors and publisher.
The purpose of this paper is to describe the complications encountered after using a muscle-splitting 2-incision technique to repair avulsed distal biceps tendons. A retrospective review of 78 consecutive anatomical repairs performed through a muscle-splitting 2-incision technique between 1981 and 1998. Complications developed after 23 (31 percent) of the 74 primarily repaired tendons, including sensory nerve paresthesias, transient posterior interosseous nerve palsy, persistent anterior elbow pain, heterotopic ossification, superficial wound infection, one rerupture, and loss of forearm rotation. No radioulnar synostoses were observed.
Copyright remains with the authors and publisher.