A trial was run in the Hand Unit of the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, involving sixty consecutive children who had sustained finger tip injuries with tissue loss over a period of three years. The three forms of treatment used in different groups of children were split skin grafting, local flap repair, and a conservative method, with twenty children in each group. The results are compared from both functional and cosmetic points of view and the results analysed.
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