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Introduction Until the late 1980s, finger joint prosthetic reconstruction had been almost exclusively performed by using monobloc silicone spacers as developed by Swanson et al more than 20 years previously. 1 Such implants are not fixed
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be found which described attempts at prosthetic replacement. What we define as Type 2 implants are those that partially or completely replace the ulna head only, some of them presenting with features engineered to allow the reattachment of the
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