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Syndactyly (from the Greek: syn = together, dactylos = digit) or digital webbing is one of the two most common congenital hand differences seen across cultures. Interdigital webbing or fusion of digits usually presents as an isolated anomaly, but it is also frequently encountered in association with other soft tissue and osseous anomalies of the hand and malformations of other organ systems including many syndromes. [1,2] Syndactyly occurs developmentally between the fifth and sixth weeks of gestation, due to failure of the “programmed cell death” or apoptosis that allows formation of the commissures and separation of the digits in the developing hand.
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Rayan, G.M., Upton III, J. (2014). Syndactyly. In: Congenital Hand Anomalies and Associated Syndromes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54610-5_28
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