Floating proximal interphalangeal joint (PIPJ) injury of the little finger in a child: A case report

We present a floating PIPJ injury of the non-dominant hand little finger in a skeletally immature boy following a hyperextension injury while playing football. The injury was managed non-operatively with a successful outcome. This injury pattern can happen with trivial trauma in a child and could be...

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Autores principales: Mehta, Sonu, Jacob John, Jagan John, Madhusudhan, Thayur R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8044674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33869717
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tcr.2021.100458
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description We present a floating PIPJ injury of the non-dominant hand little finger in a skeletally immature boy following a hyperextension injury while playing football. The injury was managed non-operatively with a successful outcome. This injury pattern can happen with trivial trauma in a child and could be easily missed. It is important to be aware of this pattern of injury and good functional outcomes are possible with non-operative treatment.
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spelling pubmed-80446742021-04-16 Floating proximal interphalangeal joint (PIPJ) injury of the little finger in a child: A case report Mehta, Sonu Jacob John, Jagan John Madhusudhan, Thayur R. Trauma Case Rep Case Report We present a floating PIPJ injury of the non-dominant hand little finger in a skeletally immature boy following a hyperextension injury while playing football. The injury was managed non-operatively with a successful outcome. This injury pattern can happen with trivial trauma in a child and could be easily missed. It is important to be aware of this pattern of injury and good functional outcomes are possible with non-operative treatment. Elsevier 2021-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8044674/ /pubmed/33869717 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tcr.2021.100458 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Floating proximal interphalangeal joint (PIPJ) injury of the little finger in a child: A case report
title Floating proximal interphalangeal joint (PIPJ) injury of the little finger in a child: A case report
title_full Floating proximal interphalangeal joint (PIPJ) injury of the little finger in a child: A case report
title_fullStr Floating proximal interphalangeal joint (PIPJ) injury of the little finger in a child: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Floating proximal interphalangeal joint (PIPJ) injury of the little finger in a child: A case report
title_short Floating proximal interphalangeal joint (PIPJ) injury of the little finger in a child: A case report
title_sort floating proximal interphalangeal joint (pipj) injury of the little finger in a child: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8044674/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tcr.2021.100458
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