camptodactyly

Also known as Minor streblomicrodactyly, familial, Familial streblodactyly, CAMPD1, CAMPTODACTYLY 1; CAMPD1, Crooked little finger, familial, CAMPTODACTYLY 1, Streblodactyly, Camptodactyly and Knuckle Pads

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.

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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Encyclopedic overview

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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.

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