Paralytic claw-finger deformity in leprosy was corrected by
metacarpophalangeal capsulorrhaphy and fibrous flexor pulley advancement in
ninety fingers in thirty-seven hands. Sixty-eight of these were analyzed
after one to four years' follow-up. The overall results were: good in
forty-two, fair in seventeen, and poor in nine. This procedure was done in
selected patients in whom for various reasons good results of tendon
transfer were not assured.