title: Characteristics of patients with symbrachydactyly.
abstract: The clinical and radiologic spectrum of symbrachydactyly has been extended, on the basis of experimental embryology, into four categories: typical symbrachydactyly, atypical cleft hand, monodactyly, and adactyly. The origin of this embryologic failure is probably a vascular disruption. A series of 64 hands and 3 feet are reported, indicating associated anomalies and possible etiologic features.
authors.affiliation: Orthopaedic Departement, University Hospital Pellenberg, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: De Smet
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fabry
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006228:Hand Deformities, Congenital / Q000145:classification / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies