Year: 2007
Type: letter
Abstract: To the Editor: The authors would like to thank Dr Baird for her comments and agree that fissuring of the fingers does indeed occur across a wide range of different climates. However, our collective experience at both sea level and high altitude leads us to believe that the frequency is greater, and extent of these injuries considerably worse, in the cold, dry environment common to the altitudes found in the greater ranges. Like Dr Baird, we also believe that the presence of type II diabetes mellitus is not a prerequisite for fissure formation. Nonetheless, we feel that the interplay between the disease and the aforementioned environmental factors experienced at high altitude provides exceptional opportunity for skin fissure formation. We therefore feel this subject is deserving of further discussion and, ideally, systematic investigation. Painful Digital FissuresWilderness & Environmental MedicineVol. 18Issue 4PreviewTo the Editor: Full-Text PDF
Authors: Jeremy S. Windsor, Paul Richards, George Rodway
Language: English
Topic: High Altitude and Hypoxia
Subfield: Genetics
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1994712975