Super Digit: More Than a Complicated Syndactyly

Super digits are a rare hand malformation, first described by Virchel Wood. Surgical intervention to try to make two fingers out of a super digit has been discouraged. Here, we present a variant of a super digit type IC2 and propose a revision of the characteristics in each super digit subtype. In o...

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Autores principales: Agostinho, Mariana, Eiró, Vera, Gomes, Tatiana, Nunes da Costa, João, Matias, Júlio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Pediatric Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9526566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36199652
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28678
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author Agostinho, Mariana
Eiró, Vera
Gomes, Tatiana
Nunes da Costa, João
Matias, Júlio
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Eiró, Vera
Gomes, Tatiana
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Matias, Júlio
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description Super digits are a rare hand malformation, first described by Virchel Wood. Surgical intervention to try to make two fingers out of a super digit has been discouraged. Here, we present a variant of a super digit type IC2 and propose a revision of the characteristics in each super digit subtype. In our view, this adjustment in Wood’s original description could facilitate the identification of super digits, which are a contraindication to syndactyly release.
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spelling pubmed-95265662022-10-04 Super Digit: More Than a Complicated Syndactyly Agostinho, Mariana Eiró, Vera Gomes, Tatiana Nunes da Costa, João Matias, Júlio Cureus Pediatric Surgery Super digits are a rare hand malformation, first described by Virchel Wood. Surgical intervention to try to make two fingers out of a super digit has been discouraged. Here, we present a variant of a super digit type IC2 and propose a revision of the characteristics in each super digit subtype. In our view, this adjustment in Wood’s original description could facilitate the identification of super digits, which are a contraindication to syndactyly release. Cureus 2022-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9526566/ /pubmed/36199652 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28678 Text en Copyright © 2022, Agostinho et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Agostinho, Mariana
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Gomes, Tatiana
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Matias, Júlio
Super Digit: More Than a Complicated Syndactyly
title Super Digit: More Than a Complicated Syndactyly
title_full Super Digit: More Than a Complicated Syndactyly
title_fullStr Super Digit: More Than a Complicated Syndactyly
title_full_unstemmed Super Digit: More Than a Complicated Syndactyly
title_short Super Digit: More Than a Complicated Syndactyly
title_sort super digit: more than a complicated syndactyly
topic Pediatric Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9526566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36199652
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28678
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