Syndactyly: National Analysis of Trends in Epidemiology and Surgical Management from 1997–2012 (Article begins on next page) The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Bucknor, Alexandra, Winona Wu, Anne Huang, Anmol S. Chattha, Austin D. Chen, Salim Afshar, and Samuel J. Lin. 2017. “Abstract: Syndactyly:...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the results from and parents' satisfaction with treatment for children with syndactyly who were operated at the "SOS Hand Recife" hospital between 2005 and 2009. METHODS data for assessing the results were gathered from the patients' medical files. The subjective scores, which were ascertained prospectively, were as follows: greater than or equal to 9, good result; betwe...

STUDY OBJECTIVES The aims were: (1) to compare the birth prevalence of malformations in different ethnic groups and (2) to explore the reasons for the ethnic variations found by examining birth prevalence in the offspring of matings between ethnic groups. DESIGN Analysis of data from a register of malformations and register of births. SETTING Birmingham, England. SUBJECTS A total of 432,7...

INTRODUCTION Congenital hallux varus of secondary type is associated with polydactyly, syndactyly or other congenital deformities of the foot. Such congenital deformities can be addressed in childhood with soft tissue reconstructive procedures. In adulthood, treatment of these deformities is challenging because of soft tissue contractures and rigid bony deformities. To our knowledge, this is th...

This paper describes previously unreported malformations of both fore and hind feet in a liveborn common marmoset. Ectrodactyly of both fore feet and left hind foot and syndactyly of the right hind foot were observed.