Mitten deformity
Volume 7 | Issue 1 | January-April 2021 | Page: 27 | Yashdeep Singh Pathania
Authors: Yashdeep Singh Pathania MD [1]
[1] Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur 342005, India.
Address of Correspondence
Dr. Yashdeep Singh Pathania
Senior Resident, Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur 342005, India.
Email: yashdeepsinghpathania@gmail.com
A 10-year-old boy, a known case of severe recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa since childhood, presented with widespread scarring over scalp, face, upper and lower limbs. Hands and feet showed flexion contracture, anonychia. There was fusion of digits of the feet by a thin membrane of scar tissue producing pseudosyndactyly, known as mitten deformity (Figure 1). In pseudosyndactyly, digits are fused together by thin membrane and involve only the distal portion of digits, which can be released through surgery where as in syndactyly actual and complete fusion of digits occur and involve base of the digits.
Figure: Scarring over legs with flexion contracture and pseudosyndactyly of foot.
| How to Cite this Article: Singh Pathania Y | Mitten deformity | International Journal of Paediatric Orthopaedics | January-April 2021; 7(1): 27. |
