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Crush and/or smash finger injury is very commonly seen in the emergency of any busy government hospital in Calcutta, India. The cause may be due to a closing door, a hammer, or a heavy object; sometimes this could be the result of a cut with a knife or power tool such as a saw, sander, lawnmower, or any other machine tool used at home or in industry. In addition, finger bite injury is also seen at times as a last attempt of resistance to prevent rape, and there have also been cases of partially or totally severed fingers brought to the hospital emergency – the injury being caused by wives of a minority community fighting for familial supremacy. Generally in minor cases, the commonly injured components may include the skin, bone, nail, nail bed, tendon, pulp, and padded area of the fingertip. Everything depends upon the force applied to the area, the angle of application condition, and the movement of the finger at that point of time. The skin on the palm side of the fingertips is very specialized in that it has many more nerve endings than most other parts of the body. These nerve endings enable the fine sensation of the fingertips, and these can also be damaged. When this specialized skin is injured, an exact replacement may be difficult.
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The Department of Science and Technology, Government of West Bengal, supported the investigator with a research grant during his tenure at Bijoygarh State General Hospital from 1999 to 2006. The work started in Bijoygarh State Government Hospital (1999–2006) and was followed up at Vidyasagar Government Hospital subsequently. The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the patients who volunteered for this research study at Vidyasagar State General Hospital. The guidance of Prof. K. L. Mukherjee, Department of Biochemistry, IPGMER, Prof M. K. Chhetri, former Director of Health Services, and Prof. B. K. Data, Department of Orthopaedics, IPGMER, is also acknowledged.
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Bhattacharya, N., Sengupta, D.B., Banerjee, S.K., Malakar, D. (2015). Crushed Finger and Its Repair After Placing It Inside an Abdominal Fatty Tunnel for 6 Weeks: A Preliminary Experience Report. In: Bhattacharya, N., Stubblefield, P. (eds) Regenerative Medicine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6542-2_23
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