PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - A Maitra AU - B Dorani TI - The conservative treatment of mallet finger with a simple splint: a case report. AID - 10.1136/emj.10.3.244 DP - 1993 Sep 01 TA - Archives of Emergency Medicine PG - 244--248 VI - 10 IP - 3 4099 - http://emj.bmj.com/content/10/3/244.short 4100 - http://emj.bmj.com/content/10/3/244.full SO - Arch Emerg Med1993 Sep 01; 10 AB - Sixty patients with mallet finger deformity were randomly treated with either a Stack or a custom-made padded aluminium alloy malleable finger splint. Both splints were equally effective in correcting the deformity but the aluminium alloy splint was able to be fitted to a wider variety of finger shapes and sizes and caused significantly fewer skin complications.