Macrodactylia in a child, due to neurofibromatosis (elephantiasis neuromatosa)

✍ Scribed by Lambert Rogers

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1929
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 215 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800166412

✦ Synopsis

THE following case seems worthy of record because of the rarity of neurofibromatosis affecting the digital nerves.

When she commenced to crawl, her mother noticed that the thumb and first finger of her right hand were larger than those of the left, and that as she grew older the eiilargenient increased so that the disparity between these digits and the remainder became ASSISTANT I N THE SURGICAL Uh-IT, THE WELSH NATlOS'AL SCHOOL OF nIEDIC'IX.II:, CARDIFF. Joan H. was born attached t o a placcnta przevia. FIG. (i09.-Illustrating tho right hand of a girl, age 8, having enlergoinents of :thumb and index finger. (Front, and lateral views.