Fingertip Injuries and Amputations
Fingertip Injuries and Amputations - OrthoInfo - AAOS
Without prompt and proper treatment, a fingertip injury can cause problems with hand function and may even result in permanent deformity or disability.
Fingertip Injuries and Amputations: A Review of the Literature - PMC
There are various presentations of injury that may end up with post-traumatic fingertip amputation, including lacerations, avulsions, and crush injuries.
Fingertip Amputation After an Injury: Care Instructions
Fingertip amputation is a common injury. Treatment depends on how much skin, tissue, bone, and nail were damaged and how much of your finger or thumb was cut ...
Fingertip Amputations & Finger Flaps - Hand - Orthobullets
Primary closure with removal of exposed bone (revision amputation) · must ablate remaining nail matrix · if flexor or extensor tendon insertions ...
Fingertip Amputation Repair - Medscape Reference
Fingertip injuries are one of the most common injuries of the hand, and appropriate treatment depends on the type of injury and the ...
Fingertip Injuries - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Possible tendon injuries · Fractures (displaced or intra-articular) · Dislocations, such as open dislocation · Significant finger avulsion · Extensive laceration ...
Finger tip amputation - Sunnybrook Hospital
The wound is left open to heal slowly, which usually takes 2-6 weeks. It may feel numb in the area of the injury because of damaged nerve endings there.
Fingertip Injuries and Amputations - Dr. Henry Backe
Fingertip injuries can be crushing, tearing, or amputating injuries to the tips of fingers and thumbs. Injury can include damage to skin and soft tissue, bone.
Fingertip Amputation Repair Technique - Medscape Reference
Fingertip replantation has become an established technique with the potential to yield excellent outcomes, but it remains technically challenging.
Fingertip Injuries and Amputations
Fingertip injuries can be crushing, tearing, or amputating injuries to the tips of fingers and thumbs. Injury can include damage to skin and soft tissue, bone.
Evaluation and management of fingertip injuries - UpToDate
Outline · - Materials · - Closed nail bed injury · - Isolated open nail bed injury · - Partial fingertip avulsion · - Amputation · Finger pulp only ...
Finger Tip Injury - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
The spectrum of finger tip injuries includes subungual hematomas, nail bed injuries, and distal finger tip amputations.
Acute Fingertip Injuries - Eaton Hand
When portions of the fingertip are missing, the injury is usually described as a partial amputation. When the finger is cut more than halfway through, the ...
Fingertip Amputations: What YOU need to know
Fingertip amputation is defined by an injury that occurs distal to the tendon insertions on the distal phalanx. Most will involve some kind of repair in the ED.
A Prospective Follow-up Study of Fingertip Amputation Treatment ...
Conservative treatment of fingertip amputation is feasible and can provide good results without major complications, even with exposed bone.
Open Treatment of Fingertip Amputations - Orthobullets
Crush injury was the most common type of trauma, fol- lowed by cutting injuries. Bone involvement was present in six cases. The average healing time was 29 days ...
Recovery for an Amputated Fingertip - MedicineNet
The fingertip amputation healing process varies depending on the extent of injury. While minor tissue injuries can heal on their own over two to four weeks, ...
Fingertip Injuries/Amputations - Orthopedic Specialists of Seattle
Fingertip injuries are very common. Accidents can happen at work, play and in the home, crushing, tearing (lacerating) or cutting off (amputating) the tips of ...
Approach to Fingertip Injuries - Clinics in Plastic Surgery
The goals of treatment of any injured fingertip should be the restoration of a stable interface for object manipulation while looking as normal as possible.
The V-Y Plasty in the Treatment of Fingertip Amputations - AAFP
There are three zones of injury; the V-Y plasty technique is used to repair zone II injuries. The plane of the injury can be described as dorsal ...