title: [Characteristics and replantation of degloving injury of distal finger].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore clinical characteristics and replantation methods of degloving injury of distal finger.
  
  
  METHODS
  From 2004 to 2009,18 cases of 19 distal finger degloving were admitted, and included 14 males and 4 femals with an average age of 31 years old ranging from 18 to 51 years old. The distal finger degloving injury was divided into 3 types according to the different levels of degloveing digital artery and skin involving 6 fingers of type I, 10 fingers of type II, 3 fingers of type III. Among them, 3 cases of 4 fingers were failed to be replantaed due to severed injured digital artery, and 15 cases of 15 distal finger degloving injury were replanted with microsurgical technique.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among 15 patients (15 fingers) conpleted the reimplant operation, 13 fingers were survived, 2 fingers were necrosis after operation. Thirteen survived fingers were followed up from 6 to 24 months (averaged 14 months). The appearance of injured fingers and nails obtained satisfactory results. According to Chinese Hand Surgery Society Criteria for function assessment replantation, the results were excellent in 9 cases, good in 3 cases and poor in 1.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Replantation of distal degloving injury is effective and it should strive for replantation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hand Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wengzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325027, Zhejiang, China.
authors.forename: Liang-Fu
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Fei-Ya
authors.initials: FY
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Zheng-Lin
authors.initials: ZL
authors.lastname: Chi
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Ting-Gang
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: Wei-Yang
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Gao
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005383:Finger Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D005385:Fingers / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012092:Replantation / Q000379:methods*; D055815:Young Adult