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Mallet finger: comparison between operative and conservative management in those cases failing to be cured by
R A Warren1, N R Kay, D G Ferguson
1Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield.
Journal of Hand Surgery (Edinburgh, Scotland)
|May 1, 1988
Abstract:
Sixty-nine patients with mallet finger who failed to be cured by a period of splintage were offered either tenodermodesis or Kirschner wire fixation of the DIP joint. Eleven (16%) accepted the offer and eight of these were significantly improved. Of those patients declining surgery, 30 were available for review after a minimum period of six months; of these 13 (43%) had undergone a significant spontaneous improvement.