Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of patients undergoing fingertip amputation

Yeara	First author	Study location	No. of patients	Male	Female	Mean age or range (years)	Mean follow-up, months (range)	No. of digits
1972	Freiberg	Canada	10	–	–	4–79	–	10
1977	Farrell	USA	17	–	–	–	–	21
1977	Fox	USA	18	–	–	–	6	22
1978	Frandsen	Denmark	24	24	1A 3C	34	32 (6–57)	24
1980	Louis	USA	33	29	4	16–70	8	38
1982	Ma	Hong Kong	140	130	10	35	6	140
1985	Kappel	USA	23	19	5	–	6	23
1985	Tupper	USA	16	15	1	34	71 (12–132)	20
1989	De Smet	Belgium	108	90	18	33	6	112
1989	Foucher	France	64	53	11	34	15–72	64
1994	Foucher	France	41	37	4	34	36 (12–72)	43
1995	Adani	Italy	11	9	2	37	26 (7–43)	11
1995	Lanzetta	Canada	25	21	4	38	30 (6–48)	25
1996	Tsai	USA	16	12	4	43	62	16
1997	Adani	Italy	25	25	7	37	27 (8–52)	25
2000	Borman	Turkey	19	10	7	25	4 (0.8–17)	25
2000	Buckley	UK	19	19	0	44	76 (40–96)	21
2001	Karamursel	Turkey	6	5	1C	19–66	10	11
2001	Kim	Korea	14	16	7	33	6	15
2001	Özdemir	Turkey	9	6	3	–	9 (3–18)	9
2001	Pelissier	France	14	12	2	42	13 (6–20)	15
2002	Baumeister	Germany	25	34	2	42	27	25
2002	Cao	China	5	8	3	29	29–33	5
2003	Laoulakos	Greece	9	8	1	41	6–30	9
2005	Adani	Italy	22	14	8	34	–	22
2005	Varitimidis	Greece	50	36	14	35	46 (14–94)	63
2006	Hattori	Japan	23	18	5	45	21	23
2006	Tuncali	Turkey	9	8	1	33	12	9
2007	Ozyigit	Turkey	7	6	1	33	18 (12–24)	7
2008	Sano	Japan	11	8	3	44	12–21	14
2008	Woon	Singapore	9	8	1	50	4 (1–15)	9
2009	Bakhach	France	13	12	1	40	–	15
2009	Omokawa	Japan	15	11	4	41	48	15
2009	Shao	China	11	8	3	36	27 (25–34)	11
2010	Chen	China	11	–	–	30	32 (26–47)	11
2010	Yazar	Turkey	66	56	10	32	18	70
2011	Hammouda	Qatar	6	6	0	29	9–12	6
2011	Wang	China	5	9	2	4	15 (10–32)	5

– not reported, A adult, C child

^aStudies listed in chronological order

^bDid not include patients lost to follow-up