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Latest revision as of 06:13, 6 April 2018
Background
- Sudden pull on a ring results in severe soft tissue avulsion injury
- Can range from circumferential soft tissue laceration to complete amputation
- Often with concomitant neurovascular damage
Clinical Features
- Typically only one digit involved
- History of working with machinery or getting digit caught in door
- Pain, bleeding, lack of sensation
Classes of Injury[1]
Based on circulatory status
- Class I: Circulation adequate
- Class II: Circulation inadequate
- Class III: Complete degloving or complete amputation
Differential Diagnosis
Hand and finger injuries
- Distal finger
- Other finger/thumb
- Boutonniere deformity
- Mallet finger
- Jammed finger
- Jersey finger
- Trigger finger
- Ring avulsion injury
- De Quervain tenosynovitis
- Infiltrative tenosynovitis
- Metacarpophalangeal ulnar ligament rupture (Gamekeeper's thumb)
- Hand
- Wrist
- Drummer's wrist
- Ganglion cyst
- Lunotriquetral ligament instability
- Scaphoid fracture
- Extensor digitorum tenosynovitis
- Compressive neuropathy ("bracelet syndrome")
- Intersection syndrome
- Snapping Extensor Carpi Ulnaris
- Vaughn Jackson syndrome
- General
Extremity trauma
- Compartment syndrome
- Contusion
- Crush syndrome
- Degloving injury
- Fracture
- Laceration
- Myositis ossificans
- Open joint injury
- Peripheral nerve injury
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Tendon injury
- Vascular injury
Evaluation
- Hand exam
- Assess for distal neurovascular function
- Dedicated digit x-ray
Management
- Will require consultation with hand surgeon for operative repair
- Antibiotics
- Cefazolin 1 g IV
- Tetanus prophylaxis
Disposition
- Admit
See Also
External Links
References
- ↑ Jones M, Gujral S. Ring Avulsion Injuries. Eplasty. 2016;16:ic5.