Ulnar Dimelia (Mirror Hand)
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Ghazi M. Rayan Joseph Upton III
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Congenital Hand Anomalies and Associated Syndromes
Ghazi M. Rayan • Joseph Upton III
Congenital Hand Anomalies and Associated Syndromes
Editors Ghazi M. Rayan INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center Orthopaedic Surgery – Hand Oklahoma City, USA
Joseph Upton III Chestnut Hill, USA
ISBN 978-3-642-54609-9 ISBN 978-3-642-54610-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-54610-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2014946208
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Preface I
I first became interested in syndromic hand anomalies in 1980 when I was a hand surgery fellow at the Raymond Curtis Hand Center in Baltimore. A patient was brought to the US from Afghanistan with a case of Klippel-Trenaunay-Webber syndrome. The patient had grotesque overgrowth of her hands and upper extremities with her fingertips reaching her knees while standing. My mentor Dr. Raymond Curtis consulted Dr. Victor McKusick, a geneticist from John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, who graciously came to Memorial hospital to examine the patient and gave us a fascinating impromptu lecture on the syndrome. When my career in hand surgery was launched in Oklahoma City I was fortunate to treat a prodigious number of children with congenital hand differences and various syndromes. Whenever I encountered a mysterious syndromic hand
