camptodactyly
Sign in to saveCamptodactyly is a medical condition that causes one or more digits (fingers or toes) to be permanently bent. It involves fixed flexion deformity of the proximal interphalangeal joints.
Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Camptodactyly
- Medical condition.image
- Congenital-kamptodaktyly.jpg
- Medical condition.pronounce
- kamp-to-dak-tee-lee
- Medical condition.field
- Medical genetics
- Medical condition.symptoms
- Permanent flexion of the proximal interphalangeal joints, although symptoms may vary in person; some people have very tight flexed fingers and other people have flexed fingers that straighten when pressed on
- Medical condition.complications
- People with severe camptodactyly may have difficulty holding objects
- Medical condition.onset
- There are congenital forms, adolescent-onset forms and acquired forms
- Medical condition.duration
- Life-long
- Medical condition.treatment
- Splinting, surgery, etc.
- Medical condition.frequency
- 1% of the world population
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Research
691 papers- Camptodactyly.The journal of hand surgery Asian-Pacific volume · 2024
- CAMPTODACTYLY AND CLINODACTYLY - NEW UNDERSTANDING OF KNOWN DEFORMITIES.Acta clinica Croatica · 2022
- Camptodactyly Treatment for the Lesser Digits.The Journal of hand surgery · 2018
- Bilateral camptodactyly.The Pan African medical journal · 2022
- Camptodactyly-arthropathy-coxa vara-pericarditis (CACP) syndrome.BMJ case reports · 2024
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Article
7 sectionsContents
- Causes
- Genetics
- Treatment
- Etymology
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Camptodactyly is a medical condition that causes one or more digits (fingers or toes) to be permanently bent. It involves fixed flexion deformity of the proximal interphalangeal joints.
Camptodactyly can be caused by a genetic disorder. In that case, it is an autosomal dominant trait that is known for its incomplete genetic expressivity. This means that when a person has the genes for it, the condition may appear in both hands, one, or neither. A linkage scan proposed that the chromosomal locus of camptodactyly was 3q11.2-q13.12.