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Although hematoma and distraction arthroplasty has been found to be successful in the treatment of thumb basal joint arthritis in the short term, questions about its efficacy in the long term have been raised. The goal of the present study was to evaluate the results of this procedure in patients at least 6.5 years after surgery.Twenty-two thumbs from 22 patients from a single surgeon’s practice were...