After a baby is born, one of the first things proud parents do is count the infant's fingers and toes. What happens when those digits look fused or stuck together? Medically, that condition is known ...

Seeing your baby’s fingers or toes joined together or with an extra digit can feel unsettling at first. Syndactyly and polydactyly are conditions some babies are born with, and while they sound ...

There is good evidence from the medical literature that type I syndactyly, the most common form of the nonsyndromic syndactylies, is clinically heterogeneous. We therefore propose to group the ...

HOXD genes encode a family of highly conserved transcription factors involved in the antero-posterior patterning of the limb bud and in the specification of fingers. 1, 2 During embryo development, ...

THOOTHUKUDI: Two years after doctors at the Thoothukudi Medical College Hospital (TKMCH) carried out a rare syndactyly (joined fingers) separation procedure for a then five-year-old girl, the facility ...