Saanhddaale's Thumb or, The Cursed White Thumb

Thumb polydactyly with a floating ulnar thumb.

Thumb polydactyly is reported to be the most common congenital anomaly of the hand in Japan. The floating type is not particularly rare, accounting for 0.9 to 15% of all cases of thumb polydactyly. However, to the best of our knowledge, there has been only one case of thumb polydactyly with a floating ulnar thumb, reported by Onizuka. Herein, we report a case very similar to that reported by On...

A thermoplastic thumb post for the treatment of thumb-sucking.

This article was accepted fur publication September 26, 1991. Behavioral research has indicated that thumbsucking often covaries with hair pulling and that the elimination of thumb-sucking can result in the elimination of the hair pulling with which it was associated (e.g., Frlman & Hove, 1987; Knell & Moore, 1988). Treatments for persistent thumb-sucking, however, have shown minimal or transie...

Simulated Tom Thumb, the Rule Of Thumb for Autonomous Robots

Robots M. A. El-Dosuky 1, M. Z. Rashad 1, T. T. Hamza 1, and A.H. EL-Bassiouny 2 1 Department of Computer Sciences, Faculty of Computers and Information sciences, Mansoura University, Egypt 2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Mansoura University, Egypt Abstract For a mobile robot to be truly autonomous, it must solve the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. We dev...

Mallet thumb.

A case of mallet thumb, with a closed rupture of the extensor pollicis longus at its distal insertion, is presented. Conservative treatment resulted in a near normal function.

Reconstruction of the thumb.