Ring Finger Necrosis Due to a Ring

Abstract

Crush injury to finger is one of the common traumas in clinical practice. The injured patients often have a ring on their finger. The ring can be removed by non-operative techniques or by cutting the ring off and thus avoiding any long-term consequences. If the ring is not removed, the finger may swell and gangrene could occur. We present an unusual case of gangrene terminal finger due to a ring. The gangrene of this type is rarely reported in literature. The case is presented to stress the importance of removal of any circumferential foreign body on limbs before surgery.

Removing the ring stuck on finger with a high speed motor: a case report

“…Many people use rings made of very different alloys and in a variety of shapes.The rings can cause sticking in fingers due to trauma, infection, allergy, insect bite, pregnancy, some skin diseases and excessive weight gain [1,2]. Sticking creates the risk of pain, circulatory impairment, infection, nerve damage, vascular injury, and necrosis and it is a condition that should be removed as soon as possible [3,4]. In this report, a case applied to the emergency department with a ring stuck on her finger, where the ring made of a thick and hard metal alloy and caused infection and excessive edema, was removed being cut by a diamond tip high-speed motor other than the conventional methods is presented.…”