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J Orthop Case Rep
April 2023
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, SGT University, Gurugram, Haryana, India.
Introduction: Authors report a rare case report about split hand and foot malformation (SHFM) also sometimes referred to as ectrodactyly.
Case Report: The patient with hand and foot malformations presented to casualty. A 60-year-old male was brought with alleged history of road traffic accident with tenderness and deformity in left thigh.
Radiol Case Rep
August 2021
Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education and Research, A-66 Saifee Society,L.H Road, Surat, 395006 India.
Limb deficiency disorders are rare, etiologically heterogeneous skeletal dysplasias that occur as an isolated anomaly or as a part of a syndrome. The term limb deficiency incorporates both absence and size reduction of any of the 120 human limb bones, with around 205 identified abnormalities. Congenital absence of tibia is a rare and severe lower limb malformation with an incidence of approximately 1:1,000,000 live births.
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June 2021
Department of Art and Art History, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
A marginal illustration of a non-ambulatory child in the 14th Century Luttrell Psalter is the earliest currently identifiable image of an individual with Split Hand Split Foot with Long Bone Deficiency (SHFLD). Changes in portrayal of SHFLD over the centuries reflect changes in social perception of disabilities from pious sympathy to scientific curiosity and unfortunately also morbid fascination. Hopefully understanding of the past attitudes toward split hand and foot as reflected in art can help in moving toward acceptance of individuals with this highly visible malformation.
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July 2021
Servicio de Angiología y Cirugía Vascular, Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa, Leganés, Madrid, España.
Medicine (Baltimore)
October 2020
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Rationale: Split-hand/split-foot malformation (SHFM), also known as ectrodactyly, is a congenital limb malformation affecting the central rays of the autopod extending to syndactyly, median clefts of the hands and feet, aplasia/hypoplasia of phalanges, metacarpals and metatarsals. Duplication of this 10q24 region is associated with SHFM3. While the clinical and genetic heterogeneity of SHFM makes the prenatal diagnosis and genetic counseling more challenging and difficult.
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