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hand malformations

Tuesday 6 September 2005

Classification

- abnormal position

  • club hand
  • phocomelia

- abnormal size

  • macrodactyly

- hand agenesis

  • peromelia

- abnormal finger number

  • hand polydactyly
  • hand ectrodactyly
  • hand syndactyly
  • hand oligodactyly
  • hand adactylia

- thumb anomalies

  • thumb agenesis
  • hitch-hiker thumb

- digital constriction bands (amniotic band sequence)

See also

- hand deformations
- hand malformations

References

- Rypens F, Dubois J, Garel L, Fournet JC, Michaud JL, Grignon A. Obstetric US: watch the fetal hands. Radiographics. 2006 May-Jun;26(3):811-29; discussion 830-1. PMID: 16702456

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