Association of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome with congenital abnormalities of hands and feet.

A female patient, 56 years old, with type A Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome and congenital skeletal abnormalities of the hands and feet is described. Though all four limbs were affected, the patient's main disability was caused by the defects of the right hand: this was short and hypoplastic, with hypoplastic phalanges, absent nails, syndactyly, and fibrous constriction rings on the fingers. She had no other evidence, apartfrom the WPW syndrome, ofcongenital heart disease. Chromosome studies were normal.