email article A 36-year-old woman presents to a hospital wound care department in Japan, sometime after an accident where she lost the tip of her right third finger -- the finger was crushed in a thick iron door during her shift at a restaurant, and the amputated part was not able to be recovered. She notes that when the injury occurred, she had first visited the emergency department of another general hospital, but the plastic surgeon there recommended surgical reconstruction, and the patient decided to opt instead for conservative management. The patient was a smoker, with an unremarkable medical history.