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DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1739401
Strategy for the Conservative Treatment of Type-III Camptodactyly in Children with Beals-Hecht Syndrome
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Abstract
The authors present a successful case in the conservative treatment of type-III camptodactyly in a patient with Beals-Hecht syndrome. Camptodactyly is a flexion deformity of the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint, in the anteroposterior direction, painless and bilateral in 2/3 of the cases. Type-III is the most severe and disabling form, as it usually affects several fingers and is associated with syndromes and other malformations. The case herein reported had the correction achieved with the systematic use of static orthoses started at 7 months of age and completed after 23 and a half months of the intervention.
Work developed at the Research Division, Instituto Nacional de Traumatologia e Ortopedia Jamil Haddad, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Publication History
Received: 09 November 2020
Accepted: 08 March 2021
Article published online:
06 December 2021
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