General considerations Trigger thumb is a congenital malformation in the thumb joint The thumb is flexed 20°-30° at the level of the interphalangeal joint The tendon may pass, forcefully, through the tendon pulley, on passive extension, but otherwise stays blocked and the child is unable to spontaneously extend the interphalangeal joint © 2009 Springer-Verlag.
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Martins, A. G. (2009). Osteoarticular system. In Pediatric Surgery Digest (pp. 721–733). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34033-1_37
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