way results in severe crushing injury causing extensive soft tissue damage, and on occasions, fractures of the bones of the hands, forearms, or feet (figs 2 and 3). I saw these six children who needed admission to hospital, their injuries ranging from soft tissue damage alone to multiple displaced open fractures of the phalanges. They have been followed up clinically and radiologically for six ...

Nicolau syndrome (NS) or livedo-like dermatitis is a rare complication of injection of various medications such as penicillin. The pathophysiology of this events is not clear, but some hypotheses are suggested, such as sympathetic nerve stimulation, embolic occlusion, inflammation, or mechanical injury. In this paper we report 3 cases of NS following benzathine penicillin. Clinical symptoms imp...

Tissue expanders can be used over the dorsum of hand and fingers to increase available tissue for flap coverage after release of syndactyly. Herein, we presented an 18-year-old man who had an unusual complex syndactyly in the middle and ring fingers of his right hand. He had also complete fusion of the proximal phalanges. In this report, we described the application of tissue expander to cover ...

OBJECTIVES This article presents force and displacement tolerances for pinch loading of the bones and joints of the digits. METHODS Dynamic (54 mm/s) pinch loading was applied in a dorsal-palmar direction to all digits (fingers and thumb) on matched pairs of hands from 8 adult human cadavers. Opposed 3.1-mm thick, 1.0-mm radius of curvature aluminum pinching surfaces were used to represent th...

In humans, hairs are common, in man it is a special and cherished feature especially in females. Hair is a filamentous keratinized structure present over almost the entire body surface (Jungueira and Carneiro, 2005). One hundred and twenty four subjects comprising of 61 females and 63 males, aged 21-41 years were randomly selected from medchal town. Phalangeal hair distribution was inspected ph...

Acrodysostosis is characterized by distinctive facial features and severe brachydactyly. Mutations in PRKAR1A or PDE4D are known to be responsible for this disease. Cases of hormonal resistance have been reported, particularly in patients with PRKAR1A mutations. The physical characteristics and endocrine function of pseudohypoparathyroidism type Ia is known to resemble acrodysostosis. We report...

Our patient is a 26‐year‐old man presented with deep abrasion over the palm in thenar eminence and the dorsum of index, middle, ring and little fingers over the distal and proximal phalanges. The injury over the ring, little and middle fingers had exposed distal inter‐phalangeal joint [Figure 1a]. The injury over the index finger was not exposing the joint, and that was closed primarily. The di...

Fractures of the proximal phalanges of the hands can be treated by many methods. With surgical intervention, a loss in proximal interphalangeal joint movement is common. Using the stabilizing effect of the zancolli complex-metacarpophalangeal retention apparatus and an external device such as a thermoplastic metacarpophalangeal block splint, proximal phalangeal fractures can be stabilized in te...

Brachydactyly type C (BDC) is characterized by shortening of the middle phalanges of the index, middle, and little fingers. Hyperphalangy of the index and middle finger and shortening of the first metacarpal can also be observed. BDC is a rare genetic condition associated with the GDF5 gene, and this condition has not been confirmed by genetic analysis so far in the Korean population. Herein, w...

Five hundred adults aged between 18-35 years were used for the study. The aim of this study was to provide a reference document for Nigerians on the distribution of phalangeal hair using a sample population of Yorubas resident in Ilorin and to assess the effect of job type, age and sex hair distribution. With the help of a hand lens, the pattern and frequency of hair distribution on the proxima...