Radial club hand and Holt-Oram syndrome.
The authors describe the case of a young African girl born with a radial club hand associated with a pedicled floating thumb, no other orthopaedic malformation was detected. A ventricular septal defect necessitated surgery in emergency. In front of such malformative association, the Holt-Oram syndrome has been evoked. The aim of this study has been to review the etiology and classification of this rather rare malformative association, as well as to describe the therapeutic attitudes and surgical techniques proposed by various authors towards the radial club hand (1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12).
Elbaum
R
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Department of paediatric surgery, Centre Hospitalier Etterbeek-Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Royer
M
M
Godart
S
S
D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006228:Hand Deformities, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011859:Radiography; D013577:Syndrome