Anatom3DMiddle phalanx of right little finger
Phalanx media digiti minimi manus dextrae · Střední článek pravého malíku
Skeleton
Looks like
The short middle bone of the little finger between its two finger joints.
What it does
Carries the insertion of the superficial flexor tendon and links the two finger joints.
Keeping it well
Jammed-finger injuries can chip its base at the middle joint (volar plate injury); early movement usually helps.
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- De Quervain's tenosynovitis
- Dupuytren's contracture & trigger finger
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Ganglion cyst
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Repetitive strain & overuse injury
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sarcoma
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency