- See:
- Congenital Deformities of the Hands:
- Discussion:
- rare anomaly
- absence of digit, w/ cleft hand ("lobster claw" hand);
- phalanges of middle finger, & sometimes corresponding metacarpal, are absent, & cleft in the plane of the missing digit & metacarpal
separates the hand into medial and lateral portions;
- digits on either side of cleft may exhibit various degrees of fusion;
- in many cases, is associated w/ tibial hemimelia