Management of lost finger tips in children.
A trial was run in the Hand Unit of the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, involving sixty consecutive children who has sustained finger tip injuries with tissue loss over a period of three years. The three forms of treatment used in different groups of children were split skin grafting, local flap repair, and a conservative method, with twenty children in each group. The results are compared from both functional and cosmetic points of view and the results analysed.
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005383:Finger Injuries / Q000145:classification / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D005385:Fingers / Q000502:physiology; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous