Female, Hindoo, aged 40; not known to be hereditary; neither father nor mother, sisters, brothers, nor children, have the deformity. The thumb of the left hand was very broad, bulging out at the end of the first phalanx, and then narrowing to the root of the single normal nail. The metacarpal bone was single, but flattened at its distal extremity, and presented two articular surfaces, to which ...

We present a 20-year-old Malay male whom we believe has Proteus syndrome, a rare congenital disorder of asymmetrical overgrowth of body tissues. There are fewer than 100 confirmed cases reported worldwide thus the clinical presentation and histopathological findings are of significance. Our patient presented with an overgrown right small finger and subcutaneous purplish pigmentation over his le...

Bone age assessment using a hand radiograph is an important clinical tool in the area of paediatrics, especially in relation to endocrinological problems and growth disorders. This paper proposes Standard Deviation based skeletal Bone Age Assessment based on features extracted from phalanx. The system works according to the renowned Tanner and Whitehouse method based on the Phalanx Region of In...

this study planned for finding the agreement dxa and quantitative ultrasound (qus) of phalanx in osteoporosis diagnosis and cut off point of qus for osteoporosis diagnosis in postmenopausal women. in 180 postmenopausal women, bmd of axial regions with dxa (dpx-md, ge, lunar, usa) and phalanx with qus (dbm-sonic 1200) measured. agreement of methods and cut off for qus in defining osteoporosis ob...

the akhal-teke is an ancient horse originat-ing from asia where it was used by nomadic tribes and used as a warhorse. lameness examinations require proper interpretation of clinical and radiographic findings. therefore, understanding of normal radiographic findings of the foot is necessary. although the radiographic appearance of the normal foot must be understood to recognize abnormalities ,th...

Disruption of the finger’s extensor apparatus at its terminal portion, causing inability to extend distal interphalangeal joint (abbreviation: DIP) and dropping of the distal phalanx, results with well known „mallet finger” deformity. This deformity can be caused by simple rupture of extensor apparatus, or avulsion fracture of the dorsal rim of the articular surface of distal phalanx. Sudden, f...

Introduction The DIP Argo hemiprosthesis (ADIP) was designed in 2012 with the idea of replacing the destroyed / arthritic head of the middle phalanx (P2) and was implanted in 2013 for the first time.Basically the idea was to achieve coverage of P2 as opposed to P3 (distal phalanx), because the last phalanx of the digit is so thin, and the joint surface often so destroyed that the fixation of th...