Figure 6.

Triple syndactyly. (a) Release done 30 years ago when the patient was 12 years old. The long and ring finger deformities have not corrected. (b) A mother's deformed right hand and her baby's unoperated right hand. (c) Index, long, and ring finger syndactyly before and after release in adult life, which could not correct the distal interphalangeal joint deformities in the right hand. Because these fingers are nearly equal in length, there is no flexion deformity of the proximal interphalangeal joints.