Broken finger
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A broken finger or finger fracture is a common type of bone fracture, affecting a finger.[1] Symptoms may include pain, swelling, tenderness, bruising, deformity and reduced ability to move the finger.[2] Although most finger fractures are easy to treat, failing to deal with a fracture appropriately may result in long-term pain and disability.[3]
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Broken finger | |
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Other names | Finger fracture |
Specialty | Emergency medicine |
Symptoms | inflammation, tenderness, bruising, deformity, reduced ability to move the finger |
Usual onset | Sudden |
Causes | traumatic injury |
Frequency | 0.012% of people per year in the United States.[1] |
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The cause is usually traumatic injury.[2] These are most commonly falls, crushing injuries, and sports injuries. Pathological fractures, from an infection or a tumour, are rarer.[1]