It is often said that if you watch the posted list of operative procedures being done
in a hospital, you will find the titles of articles published in the surgical journals
some months earlier. This natural tendency to want to try the new, usually modifying
the author's procedure while doing so, seems to be a part of human nature.
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*Reprinted with permission from The Journal of Hand Surgery (1982;7:435).
**0363-5023/00/25A02-0001$3.00/0.
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© 2000 American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
