Knuckle pads from boxing.
A 21-year-old man developed painful hyperkeratotic, fissured, callosities on his knuckles ("knuckle pads") after having boxed for five evenings a week for six months. Boxer's knuckle pads are one type of traumatic skin injury regularly found in athletes, such as "jogger's toe", "athelete's nodule", "jog-ger's nipple", "runner's rump", "runner's bump", "rower's rump", "tennis toe", "skier 's shin", "surfer's nodule" "black heel", "black palm", "jazz ballet bottom" and "stria distensae". These types of traumatic skin injuries are briefly reviewed here.
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Section of Dermatology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 aA, FIN 00250 Hel-sinki, Finland. lasse.kanerva@occuphealth.fi
D000328:Adult; D001914:Boxing / Q000293:injuries*; D002145:Callosities / Q000209:etiology*; D006229:Hand Dermatoses / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008662:Metacarpophalangeal Joint; D012867:Skin / Q000293:injuries*