A single swollen finger that has not been injured can be surprisingly tricky to diagnose. Women's health specialist Kirtly Jones, MD, walks through how clinicians think through persistent, unexplained ...

Mallet finger describes an injury to the tip of a finger or thumb that stops it from being able to straighten properly. People sometimes refer to mallet finger as “baseball finger,” as it is a fairly ...

Finger agnosia is the inability to recognize and distinguish your fingers or someone else’s. It may appear alone or it may be combined with other conditions as part of Gerstmann syndrome. Agnosia is ...

A finger tumor is a mass or lump that forms on a finger. Doctors may also describe these growths as nodules or cysts. Possible causes include ganglion cysts, warts, skin cancer, and more. Although ...

Trigger finger is the common name for a hand condition your doctor might call stenosing tenosynovitis. It happens when something inflames a band of tissue called a "pulley," which holds the tendon to ...