
Treatment of fingertip injuries and nail deformities, An Issue of Hand Clinics
- 1st Edition, Volume 37-1 - November 15, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Aviram M. Giladi
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 9 0 9 8 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 9 0 9 9 - 4
This issue of Hand Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Aviram M. Giladi, will cover a number of essential topics surrounding Treatment of fingertip injuries and nail deformities. This… Read more

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Request a sales quoteThis issue of Hand Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Aviram M. Giladi, will cover a number of essential topics surrounding Treatment of fingertip injuries and nail deformities. This issue is one of four issues selected each year by series Consulting Editor, Dr. Kevin Chung. Topics in this issue will include: Primary Management of Nailbed and Fingertip Injuries in the Emergency Department; Locoregional Options for Acute Volar Pulp Fingertip Defects; Management of Tendon and Bony Injuries of the Distal Phalanx; Fingertip Replantation -- Technique Details and Review of the Evidence; Non-Microsurgical Composite Grafting for Acute Management of Fingertip Amputation; Microsurgical Free Tissue Options for Fingertip Reconstruction; Grafting and Other Reconstructive Options for Nail Deformities -- Indications, Techniques, and Outcomes; Secondary Management of Non-Nail Perionychial Deformities; Pediatric Fingertip Injuries; Understanding and Measuring Long-Term Outcomes of Fingertip and Nail Bed Treatments; Fingertip Injuries in Athletes, Musicians, and Other Special Cases; The Burden of Fingertip Trauma on the U.S. Military; and Prosthetic options for finger and thumb amputations.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Primary Management of Nail Bed and Fingertip Injuries in the Emergency Department
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anatomy
- Nature of the problem
- Evaluation
- Subungual hematomas
- Nail bed lacerations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Locoregional Options for Acute Volar Pulp Fingertip Defects
- Key points
- Introduction
- Surgical anatomy
- Evaluation
- Goals of reconstruction
- Therapeutic options
- Discussion
- Clinics Care Points
- Disclosure
- Management of Tendon and Bony Injuries of the Distal Phalanx
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pertinent anatomy
- Acute flexor tendon injuries
- Acute extensor tendon injuries
- Distal phalanx fractures
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Non-microsurgical Composite Grafting for Acute Management of Fingertip Amputation
- Key points
- Introduction
- Secondary intention healing
- Revision amputation
- Microsurgical replantation
- Composite grafting
- Anatomy
- Techniques to improve composite graft survival
- Clinics care points
- Fingertip Replantation: Technique Details and Review of the Evidence
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anatomy
- History
- Definitions
- Indications
- Patient management
- Authors’ preferred surgical techniques
- Postoperative care
- Venous congestion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Grafting and Other Reconstructive Options for Nail Deformities: Indications, Techniques, and Outcomes
- Key points
- Introduction/History/Definitions/Background
- Anatomy and physiology
- Nature of the problem: nail deformities
- Preoperative/preprocedure planning
- Preparation and patient positioning
- Procedural approaches
- Recovery and Rehabilitation
- Outcomes and management
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Supplementary data
- Secondary Management of Nonnail Perionychial Deformities: Restoring Aesthetic and Functional Subunits
- Key points
- Introduction: principles and requirements for delayed reconstruction
- Most recent evidence for optimum clinical outcome with various reconstructive options
- Available reconstructive options
- Discussion: matching the digital problem with the optimum reconstructive option to restore aesthetic and functional subunits
- Larger volar pulp defects
- Eponychium and dorsal skin
- Very large perionychial and composite fingertip reconstructions
- Reconstruction of thumb defects
- Summary
- Microsurgical Free Tissue Options for Fingertip Reconstruction
- Key points
- Introduction
- Free flap options
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Pediatric Fingertip Injuries
- Key points
- Background
- Evaluation
- Anesthesia
- Pulp management
- Perionychia and nail bed management
- Management of an associated fracture
- Management of amputations
- Clinics care points
- Fingertip Injuries in Athletes, Musicians, and Other Special Cases
- Key points
- Athletes
- Mallet finger
- Musicians
- Other special cases
- Summary
- Understanding and Measuring Long-Term Outcomes of Fingertip and Nail Bed Injuries and Treatments
- Key points
- The Burden of Fingertip Trauma on the US Military
- Key points
- About the authors
- Background
- Echelons of military care
- Cause of combat finger amputations
- Anatomy
- Complications associated with fingertip injuries
- Summary
- Clinical care points
- Restoring Form and Function to the Partial Hand Amputee: Prosthetic Options from the Fingertip to the Palm
- Key points
- Background
- Prosthetic options for amputations distal to distal interphalangeal joint
- Prosthetic options for amputations through the distal interphalangeal joint and the middle phalanx
- Prosthetic options for amputations through the proximal interphalangeal joint and proximal phalanx
- Prosthetic options for amputations through the metacarpophalangeal joint and transmetacarpal
- Prosthetic options for amputations through the thumb
- Activity-specific prostheses
- Surgical interventions to improve prosthetic function
- Role of hand therapy
- Role of physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians in partial hand amputee care
- Barriers to prosthetic rehabilitation
- Summary
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 37-1
- Published: November 15, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323790987
- eBook ISBN: 9780323790994