Polydactyly, the presence of an extra finger, is a common and often harmless congenital condition resulting from minor ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Twenty-one month old Gavin Hodelin may have wanted to salute the American flag in his own special way. The boy, who suffers from Polydactyly, a genetic disorder, had surgery on ...

Looking down at her newborn son, new mom Talliya Burnside at first thought the exhaustion of labor had gotten to her when she counted six fingers. Then, Burnside became petrified there was something ...

It occurs due to changes in genes that control how the hands and feet form during pregnancy. It is called polydactyly, means ...

Polydactyly, the presence of extra digits, is one of the most common congenital malformations of the limb. Recent genetic studies have significantly advanced our understanding of limb development by ...

Polydactyly is a hereditary anomaly that is relatively common in both humans and animals. Moles also have additional fingers. In their case, however, the irregularity compared to the five-finger ...

Amanda Meyer is affiliated with the Australian and New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists, the American Association for Anatomy, and the Global Neuroanatomy Network. Alexandra Trollope does ...