Complex hand syndactyly, a difficult challenge. Presentation of two cases

Abstract

We present two cases of complex hand syndactyly that were surgically treated in early ages. In the first case a boy aged two years was operated, with atrophy of the left upper member, total syndactyly of the fingers and agenesis of the first phalanx of the third finger. In the second case a girl aged one year was operated, with syndactyly of the second-to-fourth fingers of the right hand, and the particularity that between the second and the third finger she presented the common proximal phalanx in the proximal half, bifurcated in the distal half. In the first case we carried out a surgical treatment in two times with time intervals of three weeks, satisfactorily obtaining the separation of the fingers, and in the second case we got the separation of the second and the third finger, lacking still one more operation.  The dissemination of this study benefits the society, promotes human health and establishes principles for a multidisciplinary treatment.