Citation

Williamson JE, Allison EJ, Williams RM. Ann. Emerg. Med. 1982; 11(8): 452-454.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1982, American College of Emergency Physicians, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7103167

Abstract

Presented are the cases of four patients who sustained similar dominant hand injuries while riding a mechanical bull apparatus. The injuries included fractures of the second metacarpals as well as of the index finger phalanges. The mechanism of injury in each case occurred not from striking or catching the injured hand on the bull or by falling off the apparatus, but secondary to the extreme torque forces applied to the extremity during the severe gyrations.

Language: en