Mallet finger

In medicine, mallet finger, also baseball finger and (more generally) extensor tendon injury, is an injury of the extensor digitorum longus tendonat the distal interphalangeal joint.^{[{{fullurl:Template:FULLPAGENAME}}#endnote_gpnotebook1]} It results from hyperextension of the extensor digitorum longus tendon, as can happen when someone hits their own finger (when using a mallet) or when, in baseball, someone goes to catch a flyballand the ball strikes the palmar aspect of one of their fingers.

Reference

1. ^  Mallet Finger, GPnotebook.co.uk, URL: http://www.gpnotebook.co.uk/cache/1295319050.htm. Accessed December 6, 2005.

External links

• Mallet Finger- eMedicine.com
• Mallet Finger(Picture) - Centre International de Chirurgie de la Main
• Mallet finger deformity- Student-ER.net

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It uses material from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallet+finger Wikipedia article Mallet finger.