Orthopaedic Hand Service, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Masschusetts, U.S.A.; and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

This paper is from the debate session at the annual Specialty Day of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association, March 1999.

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