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. 1978 Feb;10(1):16-27.
doi: 10.1016/s0072-968x(78)80021-7.

Management of lost finger tips in children

S K Das, H G Brown

Management of lost finger tips in children

S K Das et al. Hand. 1978 Feb.

Abstract

A trial was run in the Hand Unit of the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, involving sixty consecutive children who has sustained finger tip injuries with tissue loss over a period of three years. The three forms of treatment used in different groups of children were split skin grafting, local flap repair, and a conservative method, with twenty children in each group. The results are compared from both functional and cosmetic points of view and the results analysed.

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