Thursday Conference

Hand Conference: Thursdays 6:30 – 7:30am

Bimonthly we have a joint conference with the division of plactic surgery to discuss the treatment of common hand diagnoses. There is typically a 30-40min presentation given by an attending or resident, followed by cases for discussion. Some of the topics dicussed in the past year include:

• flexor tendon injuries,
• congenital thumb,
• keinbock’s disease,
• digital nerve injury and repair,
• Mallet, swan & boutoniere,
• Hand outcome studies,
• syndactyly, polydactyly,
• hand flaps,
• tumors of the hand,
• nerve/tendon transfers,
• cerebral palsy,
• scaphoid fractures,
• replantation, wrist arthroscopy,
• hand infections, and
• DRUJ injuries