title: Nail relocation by nail flap in digital injuries.
abstract: In circumstances where the nail complex is intact and undamaged it may be wiser to relocate the nail as a flap based on its vascular supply rather than resort to pulp replacement procedures such as a cross-finger flap or similar techniques which leave a hyposensitive pulp and a "parrot-beak" deformity of the nail. In "acute" finger injuries this procedure is decidedly preferable to amputation through the head of the middle phalanx.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001158:Arteries; D005383:Finger Injuries / Q000601:surgery; D005385:Fingers / Q000098:blood supply; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D009262:Nails / Q000637:transplantation*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013933:Thumb / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery