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Familial Congenital Hypoplasia of the Thumb —Report on a Family—

From the Tokyo Kosei-Nenkin Hospital, Tokyo

Correspondence: Dr. J. Nakamura, M.D. 1-9-9 Kakinokizaka, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152, Japan.

Congenital hypoplasia of the thumb is not a rare condition in clinical practice, but a familial occurrence of this condition is exceedingly rare.

We report a family with familial congenital hypoplasia of the thumb. In three generations, five members were proved to be affected and another two were presumed to be affected. To our surprise, a younger sister of the propositus had tetralogy of Fallot and triphalangeal thumbs on both hands.

Journal of Hand Surgery (British and European Volume), Vol. 9, No. 2, 145-148 (1984)
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-7681(84)80014-5


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