The mallet finger is a stable injury. If the patient presents with lack of active extension of the DIP joint, then splinting of the finger in extension or slight hyperextension for 8 weeks is the treatment of choice.
Types of Stroke. The most common type of stroke, accounting for almost 80 percent of all strokes, is caused by a clot or other blockage within an artery leading to the brain. An intracerebral hemorrhage is a type of stroke caused by the sudden rupture of an artery within the brain. Blood is then released into the brain compressing brain structures. A subarachnoid hemorrhage is also a type of stroke caused by the sudden rupture of an artery.
16 In an evaluation of 5017 patients with stroke inGermany, the most common subtype was cardioembolic(25.6%),followedbyunknownetiology(22.7%),macroan-giopathy (20.9%), microangiopathy (20.5%), concurrentetiologies (6.9%), and other causes (3.5%).