Metacarpal fractures often happen due to a fall or hit to your hand. Falling onto your hand or knuckles or being hit with a hockey or lacrosse stick are common ways to fracture your metacarpals.

Thumb metacarpal fractures can be classified as shaft or base fractures, with base fractures further classified into extra-articular (epibasilar) or intra-articular. Intra-articular fractures are ...

Background: Fractures of the fingers and metacarpal bones are the most common fracture type in the upper limb, with an incidence of 114 to 1483 per 100 000 persons per year. The clinical ...

The metacarpal shaft scan region of interest extended from 4.5 mm distal to the reference line to 9.02 mm (110 slices) ... Improving Patients' Outcomes After Osteoporotic Fractures; ...

A boxer’s fracture is when you break a bone at the base of your finger, near the knuckle or neck of the bone. That bone is known as a metacarpal. A boxer’s fracture may also be called fifth ...

A healthy 25-year-old man presented to the ED after accidentally injuring his left hand with a circular saw while cutting lumber.On presentation, the patient had a 10-cm dorsal hand laceration at ...

Metacarpal fractures are not uncommon in basketball. They are often the result of impact, notably via accidental contact with another player or in a fall to the ground.

The Toronto Raptors lost a game and All-Star Scottie Barnes on Friday night.. Barnes suffered a fractured third metacarpal bone in left hand and will be out indefinitely, the team announced after ...