Medical Must-See: Eight fingers on one hand but no thumb
Neither parents nor siblings showed any congenital anomalies.
No thumb, two ulnae and eight fingers with soft tissue syndactyly of the two most radial digits made this two-year-old a clearly unusual case.
According to doctors from New Delhi and Eluru in India, the child had some ability to grasp with her hand but her fine motor skills were underdeveloped.
She had limited mobility of her arm joints, with flexion deformity of 10° at the wrist and a further 20-40° of active range of motion, and 40-50° of active flexion at the elbow.
Her ipsilateral shoulder range of motion was “grossly 90° normal”, the doctors wrote in the Journal of Medical Case Reports.
