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Isolated split hand-split foot malformation
Disease definition
A rare, congenital, bone development disorder characterized by a spectrum of terminal limb malformations including hypoplasia/absence of central rays of the hands and feet (that can occur in one to all four digits), variable degrees of median clefts of the hands and/or feet, aplasia and syndactyly, with a wide range of severity ranging from malformed central finger/toe to a lobster claw-like appearance of the hands and feet. It can occur as an isolated malformation or it can be a feature in various syndromes.
ORPHA:2440
Classification level: Disorder- Synonym(s):
- Ectrodactyly
- SHFM
- Split hand foot malformation
- Prevalence: 1-9 / 100 000
- Inheritance: Autosomal dominant or Autosomal recessive or X-linked recessive
- Age of onset: Infancy, Neonatal
- ICD-10: Q74.8
- OMIM: 183600 225300 246560 313350 605289 606708
- UMLS: C0265554
- MeSH: -
- GARD: 6319
- MedDRA: 10079827
A summary on this disease is available in Italiano (2004) Français (2005) Español (2014) Nederlands (2014) Suomi (2014, pdf)
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Disease review articles
- Clinical genetics review
- English (2021) - GeneReviews


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