title: Surgical treatment of simple syndactyly.
abstract: During the period 1963--74 a total of 20 operations for simple syndactyly were performed on 34 fingers. A dorsal rectangular flap and thick split skin grafts were regularly used except in 2 cases where full thickness grafts were used for covering the skin defects. There were no secondary operations. The period of observation after 13 operations was 4 years or more. It is concluded that the dorsal rectangular flap technique combined with thick split skin grafts give satisfactory results.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013576:Syndactyly / Q000601:surgery*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous