Vaughan-Jackson's 1948 two-case report describes a previously unrecognized mechanism of spontaneous extensor tendon rupture at the wrist: progressive attrition of the extensor digitorum communis and digiti minimi tendons against arthritic roughening of the distal ulna at the inferior radio-ulnar joint, presenting as sudden painless loss of ring and small finger extension.
Vaughan-Jackson's 1948 two-case report describes a previously unrecognized mechanism of spontaneous extensor tendon rupture at the wrist: progressive attrition of the extensor digitorum communis and digiti minimi tendons against arthritic roughening of the distal ulna at the inferior radio-ulnar joint, presenting as sudden painless loss of ring and small finger extension.