Katie Frith, Daniela de Lima Corvino, Ronit Wollstein
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Abstract
We describe a case of Group A streptococcal infection originally presenting as flexor tenosynovitis. Group A Streptococcus outbreaks have been recently described in developed countries, which constitutes an epidemiological shift that hand surgeons should be aware of.