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Case Presentation: A 58-year-old left-hand-dominant woman sustained a dorsal heat-press injury affecting the left index to small fingers; we performed staged reconstruction with tangential debridement and artificial dermis placement (Day 9) followed by full-thickness skin grafting (FTSG) from the right infraclavicular region (Day 23), with supervised rehabilitation from Day 15 and active ROM resumed on postoperative day (POD) 6 after FTSG. Conclusions: At long-term follow-up (POD 821 after FTSG; \u22482.2 years), the reconstructed digits showed no hypertrophic scarring and achieved full finger motion with full fist formation; serial joint-specific active ROM tracking may enhance interpretability and comparability of outcomes in this uncommon but functionally critical injury pattern.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/reports9010069","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,26]],"date-time":"2026-02-26T11:23:45Z","timestamp":1772105025000},"page":"69","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Dorsal Multi-Digit Heat-Press Injury: Staged Full-Thickness Skin Grafting with Range of Motion Tracking"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-5131-1038","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shintaro","family":"Mitamura","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan"},{"name":"Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Nikko Memorial Hospital, Muroran 051-0005, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Taisuke","family":"Sakamoto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Nikko Memorial Hospital, Muroran 051-0005, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"995","DOI":"10.1097\/00005373-197412000-00002","article-title":"Treatment of open crushing type of industrial injuries of the hand and forearm: Degloving, open circumferential, heat-press, and nail-bed injuries","volume":"14","author":"Tajima","year":"1974","journal-title":"J. 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