Misnomers in Hand Surgery

Hand surgery literature is full of disease names and terms. Some of them are misnomers, which are misleadingto physicians outside the specialty. Therefore, we decided to collect all misnomers and provide them via thispaper. Considering development of sciences in future, perhaps avoidance from new misnomers is impossible,but awareness of this fact, lead us to be more ingenious in interpretation. On the other hand, we believe thiscollection would be interesting for most specialists in hand surgery and as well informative for others.© 2014 Tehran University of Medical Sciences. All rights reserved.Citation: Nabi R, Jafari D, Shariatzadeh H, Najdmazhar F, Ajvadi A. Misnomers in Hand Surgery. Acad JSurg, 2014; 1(4): 99-101.

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Hand surgery , Misnomer , Orthopedics , Physicians , Terminology