Abstract
A ten-year-old patient came under the observation of the U.O. OrtopediaUniversitaria of the A.O.U. Policlinico Santa Maria AlleScotte. She reported the following diagnosis: hyperflexion of the third phalanx of the left hand fourth finger, with hypogenesis of the third phalanx. As the first of the three surgical phases proposed, the patient underwent the retensioning of the long flexor tendon of the fourth finger and kinesis exercises in order to rehabilitate the phalanx correctly.
Highlights
Finger injuries are common in children, especially during preschool age
Hand finger injuries are very common in children
We started from a V-incision of the cutis of the flexor surface at the F2 and F3 level of the left hand fourth finger
Summary
Finger injuries are common in children, especially during preschool age. They are not life-threatening, they often cause physical and emotional suffering and the inability to perform routine activities such as eating, playing and school work. They can entail psychological trauma, deformity and sometimes a heavy expenditure for the family. At the age of ten the patient put her left hand into the gears of a water pump while playing with it in her house and suffered an injury of the distal phalanx of the left hand fourth finger, and the cicatricial effects caused hyperflexion of the fourth finger. The articulation was stabilised using the Kirschner wire of this articulation
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