1. Bell SC. The hand, its mechanism and vital endowments, as evincing design. Philadelphia: Coney Lea and Blanchard, 1833.
2. Bunnell S. Surgery of the hand. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1944.
3. Emmett J, Breck L. A review and analysis of 11,000 fractures seen in a private practice of orthopaedic surgery, 1937–1957. J Bone Joint Surg 1957; 40A: 1169–1175.
4. De Jong J, Klingma J, Van Der Lai, B, et al. Phalangeal fractures of the hand: an analysis of gender and age-related incidence and aetiology. J Hand Surg 1994; 19B: 168–170.
5. Schneider L. Fractures of the distal phalanx. Hand Clin 1988; 4: 537–547.