A fracture that involves multiple fingers is called what?

• A. Doheny fracture
• B. Collas fracture
• C. Comminuted fracture
• D. Compound fracture

Answer: (A)

A fracture description focuses on location and pattern, not on how many fingers are involved. There isn’t a widely recognized named fracture that specifically means “a fracture involving multiple fingers.” In hand trauma, you describe whether bones of the hand (metacarpals and phalanges) are fractured, how many digits are affected, and the pattern (whether the bone is in one piece or broken into fragments, whether the skin is breached, etc.).

From the options, an open fracture is called a compound fracture, which refers to skin break with the fracture, not the number of fingers involved. A fracture described as comminuted means the bone is broken into multiple fragments, which is a pattern you can see in a single finger bone but does not by itself indicate multiple digits involved. Colles fracture is a classic distal radius fracture near the wrist, not related to multiple fingers. The term listed as a choice (Doheny fracture) isn’t a standard, recognized term in typical hand trauma terminology.

So, in practical terms, a fracture involving multiple fingers would be described as fractures of multiple digits (e.g., multiple finger fractures), rather than a single named fracture. If a finger itself is broken into several pieces, that would be described as a comminuted fracture of that finger.