Slam Dunk Diagnosis: Pyogenic Granuloma After Basketball Injury.

Abstract

A 15-year-old man with no known past medical history presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with a complaint of a rapidly growing mass on the left fourth finger noted after sustaining a laceration over that area while playing basketball. The patient reported the growth of a mass over a 3-week period from where he had cut his finger. He denied any pain, discharge, fever, or chills. Physical examination was significant for a 1 × 1 × 1-cm red, friable, pedunculated, nontender mass on the volar aspect of the left fourth finger (Figures 1 and 2).