A Report of Two Cases of Volar and Dorsal Fractures of the Middle Phalanx Caused by a Basketball
| Autor: | Shinji Uesaka, Ryouichi Murashige, Yoshihito Nakayama, Kaoru Kobayashi, Hiromoto Ito, Kouichi Tanaka, Kiyoshi Yoshihara, Takuya Sawaizumi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent medicine.medical_treatment Nonunion Basketball Middle finger Fractures Bone Finger Injuries medicine Deformity Humans Finger Fracture business.industry General Medicine Index finger medicine.disease Surgery Radiography body regions medicine.anatomical_structure Female medicine.symptom Interphalangeal Joint Splint (medicine) Range of motion business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nippon Medical School. 69:376-378 |
| ISSN: | 1347-3409 1345-4676 |
| DOI: | 10.1272/jnms.69.376 |
| Popis: | We present two rare cases of volar and dorsal fractures of the middle phalanx at the proximal interphalangeal joint (PIPJ). The first case was a 16-year-old girl. She hurt her middle finger while playing basketball. A lateral radiograph revealed volar and dorsal fractures of the middle phalanx. She underwent external immobilization of the PIPJ in 30 degrees of flexion with a splint for 3 weeks. The fractures healed 7 weeks after the injury with neither tenderness nor limitation of range of motion. The second case was a 16-year-old boy. He injured his index finger while playing basketball, and underwent immobilization of the PIPJ for 3 weeks. At 10 weeks after the injury, the dorsal fracture was almost healed, but the displacement of the volar fragment had worsened. At a 3-year follow-up, the dorsal fragment was healed, but the volar fragment remained in a site of nonunion. However, there was neither residual deformity nor restriction of movement. |
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