After a baby is born, one of the first things proud parents do is count the infant's fingers and toes. What happens when those digits look fused or stuck together? Medically, that condition is known ...

Syndactyly is one of the most frequent congenital limb abnormalities and occurs as an isolated anomaly or a part of a malformation syndrome. Syndactyly falls into five major types I–V based on ...

There is good evidence from the medical literature that type I syndactyly, the most common form of the nonsyndromic syndactylies, is clinically heterogeneous. We therefore propose to group the ...

Seeing your baby’s fingers or toes joined together or with an extra digit can feel unsettling at first. Syndactyly and polydactyly are conditions some babies are born with, and while they sound ...