Incidence and management of mallet finger in Dutch primary care.
Patrick KrastmanEvelien de SchepperPatrick BindelsSita Bierma-ZeinstraGerald KraanJos RunhaarPublished in: BJGP open (2023)
On average, a GP assesses ±1 patient with a MF per year. Since only a minimal number of patients required surgical treatment and a limited number of GPs requested radiography, the recommendation in the guidelines to perform radiography in all patients with MF should potentially be reconsidered. The purpose of requesting radiographs should not be to distinguish between a tendinogenic or osseous MF, but to assess whether there is a possible indication for surgery.
Keyphrases
- primary care
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- minimally invasive
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- peritoneal dialysis
- risk factors
- image quality
- case report
- magnetic resonance imaging
- coronary artery bypass
- cone beam computed tomography
- coronary artery disease
- surgical site infection
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- contrast enhanced