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The usual existence of multiple tendons of abductor pollicis longus has been utilised to make one of them a motor for ruptured extensor pollicis longus tendon, leaving the remaining musculotendinous unit in its original and essential abductor role.
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K. M. Backhouse (1981) studied this question.
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