gms | German Medical Science

Objectives/Interrogation: The mallet finger is a common traumatic disease, can be open o closed injury.

The closed injuries can be treat without surgery, but the patient has to use a splint, this kind a treatment is so many times uncomfortable for the patients, and let the patients don't follow and fail this.

In our clinic for the closed mallet finger use a temporary transarticular k wire, lock the distal interphalangeal joint and the wire is left under the skin, and the patient doesn't have to use a splint, go back to work in 2 days, and take out the k wire in 8 weeks. This study is for review the fuctional and clinical outcomes of this technique, and review complications

Methods: All the patients was examined for a medical doctor, diferent of the hand surgeon, who performed the surgery, all patient was check the range of motion of the finger, and the pain, and also the days to return to work and describe complications

Results and Conclusions: The study find 60 patients, only 2 patients lost, 58 was examined, the averange lag of extesnion vas 6ª (5-12), the pain was 1 (0-3), return to work was 3 days (1-8), we find our results can be compared with other treatments, and our technique can be usefull for patients who wants to come back to work, and can be more comfortable for the patients this technique.