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Congenital Unilateral Muscle Hyperplasia of the Hand with Ulnar Deviation of the Fingers

From the Hand Centre, Bad Neustadt, and the Orthopaedic Service, 67th Combat Support Hospital, US Army Medical Activity, Wuerzburg, Germany

Correspondence: Prof. Dr U. Lanz, Klinik für Handchirurgie, Salzburger Leite 1, 97616 Bad Neustadt, Germany.

Three cases of congenital unilateral muscular hyperplasia of the hand combined with ulnar deviation of the fingers are presented. In all three patients the deformity was confined to the right upper extremity, and there were no other associated congenital malformations. All patients displayed anomalous or hyperplastic musculature acting on the proximal phalanges of the fingers, contributing to the associated ulnar drift of the hand. This condition is previously unreported, and is a different entity from the previously described "windblown hand".

Journal of Hand Surgery (British and European Volume), Vol. 19, No. 6, 683-688 (1994)
DOI: 10.1016/0266-7681(94)90235-6


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