Left hand laceration injury to a 27-year-old male who got into a fight!
Laceration is a cut, a deep cut in skin that is produced by the tearing of soft body tissue. This type of wound is caused by a sharp object (such as a knife in this case or a shard of glass) and almost always leads to the injury of deeper structures under the skin such as vessels and nerves, and more rarely to tendons and bones. The mechanism of injury can raise any suspicious of a nerve injury. In some cases, a simple bruise or swelling around the nerve will cause numbness or tingling for a few days. After this, normal feeling and function return. If the feeling doesn’t return within 10 days, the nerve has likely been cut.A deep cut may be closed with stitches (sutures) or skin glue. Skin glue is used on cuts that have smooth edges and are not very deep and infected. This case requires surgical repair and application of stitches.
