Absent thumb

Dr Mohammad Taghi Niknejad and Dr Hani Salam et al.

An absent thumb can have many associations. They include:

Fanconi anemia (pancytopenia-dysmelia syndrome)
Franceschetti syndrome
Holt-Oram syndrome
phocomelia (e.g. thalidomide embryopathy)
Poland syndrome (pectoral muscle aplasia and syndactyly)
Rothmund-Thomson syndrome
Seckel syndrome (bird-headed dwarfism)
trisomy 18
Yunis-Varón syndrome

See also

radial ray anomalies

References

Article information

rID: 10614

System: Paediatrics, Musculoskeletal

Tag: thumb, congenital anomaly

Synonyms or Alternate Spellings:

Absence of thumb
Absence of the thumb
Thumb aplasia

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Cases and figures

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Case 2 : with Holt Oram syndromeCase 2 : with Holt Oram syndrome

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