ALTHOUGH the heritability of the patterns on fingers and palms was pointed out by Sir Francis Galton 1 in 1892 and soon put to wide use in physical anthropology, little agreement has been reached to ...

Background A 58-year-old woman presented with arthritis of the small joints of her hands and rapidly progressive joint contractures. She was wheelchair bound within 2 months of the onset of her ...

UNUSUAL and unexpected distortions of dermal patterns were first observed in chromosome aberrations. 12 These reports stimulated our interest to look for other correlations. In our random screening of ...

Dupuytren’s disease affects the palmar fascia and can progress into finger-bending Dupuytren’s contracture over time. It often pulls the ring or little finger into a fixed flexed position. Changes in ...

The palmar carpometacarpal ligament is a wrist ligament that is part of the volar deep ligaments. The term volar is used to mean the front part of the hand. Ligaments, or joints, are conjoining ...