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Representative drawing of flexor tendons (Flexor Digitorum Longus, FDL, and Flexor Digitorum Brevis, FDB, Tendons) after flexor tenodesis to the plantar aspect of the proximal phalanx is finalized. With provisional K-wire fixation retaining the interphalangeal joints in extension, tenodesis implant was inserted in the proximal phalanx, maintaining the distal aspects of FDL and FDB relaxed, and the proximal aspect of the same tendons under tension, pulling the proximal phalanx plantarly
