A Case of Macrodactyly
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S., a Hindu girl, aged 10 years, of the village Saraiyan, in Ghazipnr district, was admitted into the hospital with abnormal enlargement of the right middle finger. She came to the hospital for its removal, as she had been feeling its weight. It is seven and a half inches in length and seven and a half inches in diameter at its thickest part. The left middle finger is three inches in length and two inches in diameter
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