title: [Congenital deformities of the hand and upper limb].
abstract: Congenital deformities of the hand and upper limb include a significant number of clinical situations. Their expression is, as in all congenital diseases, variable. Therefore, we can almost consider that each clinical situation is a bit unique. The difficulty, as any congenital disease, is the fact that the clinical cases are extremely diverse and difficult to classify. So what to do and surgical strategies are often matter of "School". This is even more true that the evaluation of results is very difficult due to low series (poor statistical value) and functional assessment to be partly due to the growth of the child. It is impossible in a few pages to describe all malformations of the hand and upper limb, summarize the indications and evaluate the results. Also, this chapter is not exhaustive and we will focus primarily on the most frequent pathologies.
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie plastique et reconstructrice, centre des brûlés, Hôtel-Dieu, CHU de Nantes, 44093 Nantes cedex 01, France; Inserm U957, laboratoire de physiopathologie de la résorption osseuse, université de Nantes, 44035 Nantes, France. Electronic address: franck.duteille@chu-nantes.fr.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Duteille
authors.affiliation: Service de pédiatrie, hôpital Mère-et-Enfant, CHU de Nantes, 44093 Nantes cedex 01, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Beneteau
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie plastique et reconstructrice, centre des brûlés, Hôtel-Dieu, CHU de Nantes, 44093 Nantes cedex 01, France.
authors.forename: M-V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Camut
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie plastique et reconstructrice, centre des brûlés, Hôtel-Dieu, CHU de Nantes, 44093 Nantes cedex 01, France; Inserm U957, laboratoire de physiopathologie de la résorption osseuse, université de Nantes, 44035 Nantes, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Perrot
mesh_terms: D006228:Hand Deformities, Congenital / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D019637:Orthopedic Procedures; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D038062:Upper Extremity Deformities, Congenital / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000601:surgery*
keywords: Child; Classification; Congenital deformities; Enfant; Hand; Main; Malformation congénitale; Membre supérieur; Upper limb