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Toe-tourniquet syndrome: A rare potentially devastating entity

Toe-tourniquet syndrome is a rare and commonly misdiagnosed condition caused by a hair or a fiber wrapped around digits (fingers and toes). A four months baby girl who was crying and presented with redness and swelling at her 2nd and 3rd toes of right foot. Child had red and swollen 2nd and 3rd toes...

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Autores principales: Baloch, N, Atif, M, Rashid, RH, Hashmi, PM
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5393137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28611912
http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1511.008
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description Toe-tourniquet syndrome is a rare and commonly misdiagnosed condition caused by a hair or a fiber wrapped around digits (fingers and toes). A four months baby girl who was crying and presented with redness and swelling at her 2nd and 3rd toes of right foot. Child had red and swollen 2nd and 3rd toes of right foot with hair end protruding through wounds. Constricting hairs were cut and removed. Toetourniquet syndrome is a rare entity which is caused by hair wrapped around a toe or a digit. Diagnosis is mostly clinical. In order to prevent this condition to happen, education of parents and clinicians is a cornerstone.
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spelling pubmed-53931372017-06-13 Toe-tourniquet syndrome: A rare potentially devastating entity Baloch, N Atif, M Rashid, RH Hashmi, PM Malays Orthop J Case Report Toe-tourniquet syndrome is a rare and commonly misdiagnosed condition caused by a hair or a fiber wrapped around digits (fingers and toes). A four months baby girl who was crying and presented with redness and swelling at her 2nd and 3rd toes of right foot. Child had red and swollen 2nd and 3rd toes of right foot with hair end protruding through wounds. Constricting hairs were cut and removed. Toetourniquet syndrome is a rare entity which is caused by hair wrapped around a toe or a digit. Diagnosis is mostly clinical. In order to prevent this condition to happen, education of parents and clinicians is a cornerstone. Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2015-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5393137/ /pubmed/28611912 http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1511.008 Text en © 2015 Malaysian Orthopaedic Association (MOA). All Rights Reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Toe-tourniquet syndrome: A rare potentially devastating entity
title Toe-tourniquet syndrome: A rare potentially devastating entity
title_full Toe-tourniquet syndrome: A rare potentially devastating entity
title_fullStr Toe-tourniquet syndrome: A rare potentially devastating entity
title_full_unstemmed Toe-tourniquet syndrome: A rare potentially devastating entity
title_short Toe-tourniquet syndrome: A rare potentially devastating entity
title_sort toe-tourniquet syndrome: a rare potentially devastating entity
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5393137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28611912
http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1511.008
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