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Brachydactyly: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
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Last reviewed: 20.11.2021
Brachydactyly is a congenital malformation of the hand, in which, depending on the degree of severity, the underdevelopment or absence of middle phalanges, middle and main phalanges or middle, basic phalanges, and metacarpal bones are observed.
ICD-10 code
Q70.9 Brachydactyly.
Ectrodactyly
Ectrodactyly - congenital malformation of the brush, characterized by underdevelopment of nail phalanges; as the deficit increases, the defects of the nail and middle phalanges are observed, with severe degrees absent nail, middle and major phalanges. The metacarpal bones are developed normally. In most cases, ectrodactyly combined with congenital constrictions, such an anomaly is called secondary ectrodactyly.
ICD-10 code
Adactyly
Adactyly - congenital malformation of the hand, in which there are no phalanges of fingers; depending on the severity of the metacarpal bone partially or completely preserved.
ICD-10 code
Q71.8 Adaptable.
Treatment of brachydactyly
The purpose of surgical treatment of transverse defects of the hand
- Correction of linear finger sizes using distraction methods, microsurgical foot to hand transplantation, pollicization operations.
- Elimination of the syndactyly of the fingers by plasticizing with local tissues or combined skin plasty (depending on the size of the fusion).
- Correction of concomitant pathology (congenital constrictions with ectrodactyly, clinodactyly).
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