“…However, determining the optimal management of the tendon is challenging because many surgical approaches are described (resection of the tendon, reattachment of the tendon, tendon transfers, and side-to-side repair) but definitive recommendations, algorithms, or comprehensive reviews on this topic are hitherto unreported. In order to delineate the optimal management of the tendon involved in such injuries (based on whether the tendon was a flexor or an extensor, which digit was involved, and at what level the digit amputation occurred), cases were gathered from our own experience (seven charts were obtained from Collins and Thoma, unpublished results) and through a thorough systematic review of the literature [8,11,13,16–19,21,23–31,33,34]. Based on our findings, an algorithm was designed to state the most commonly performed operations for specific injury patterns.…”