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Club Fingers and Club Toes of Unknown Etiology
Author(s) -
ELGENMARK. OLLE
Publication year - 1943
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1943.tb15853.x
Subject(s) - medicine , club , etiology , phalanx , girl , anatomy , dermatology , pediatrics , pathology , genetics , biology
Summary After a short account of the most common congenital malformations in the hands, a case is described of congenital club fingers and club toes, without overcurved nails or cyan‐ otic discoloration, in a 10‐year‐old girl, who also has a number of other malformations in the skeleton and joints. This type of anomaly does not conform to cases of club‐shaped thicken‐ings of the terminal phalanges described previously. Nor does the somatic examination afford any definite evidence of disturbances in the interim1 secretions or any other coneicvable etiology.