Autoamputation of the fingertips in an 11-year-old boy.
The following case is presented to illustrate the roentgenographic and clinical findings of a condition of interest to the orthopaedic surgeon. The final clinical and roentgenographic differential diagnoses can be found on the following pages.
Yin
Y
Y
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, St. Louis, Missouri.
Rotman
M B
MB
Gilula
L A
LA
D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005385:Fingers; D006227:Hand Deformities, Acquired / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013595:Syringomyelia / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D013933:Thumb