conclusions complete recovery of the hand and finger extension was achieved in nine months. case presentation a 61 year-old man presented with the chief complaint of inability to extend the wrist and the fingers of the left hand which began suddenly the night before admission, following a three-week history of pain, numbness and tingling sensation of the affected extremity. he had no history of...

conclusions the lower levels of sugar in crushed fingers compared to healthy fingers can help to diagnose gangrene in crushed fingers. objectives the current study aimed to compare the blood sugar (bs) levels measured by the glucometer in healthy and crushed fingers to predict gangrene in patients referred to 15 khordad hospital in tehran, iran. methods this cohort study was conducted on 265 pa...

abstract   background: traumatic or congenital events can result in injury and functional deficiency in the hand and we need to reconstruct the fingers at times. studies are available in the pediatric and adult age groups to assess the length of the thumb. but to the best our knowledge no measurement of the relative clinical length of all fingers has been reported in the literature. we performe...