Anatom3DProper palmar digital vein of index finger
Venae digitales palmares propriae indicis · Vlastní dlaňové žíly ukazováku
Veins
Looks like
Small veins along the palm side of the index finger.
What it does
Carry blood from the finger toward the palm and the back of the hand.
Keeping it well
Replanting a cut-off finger needs a vein joined as well as an artery, or the finger swells and fails.
Related conditions
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- De Quervain's tenosynovitis
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Dupuytren's contracture & trigger finger
- Ganglion cyst
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Repetitive strain & overuse injury
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Varicose veins