For "Polish syndrome", many parents are curious, how did the short conjunctive finger problem on the baby's hand be related to the country Poland?
In fact, it was named in honor of a doctor named Poland, who discovered that children with this condition usually have a missing or dysplasia of one pectoral muscle, accompanied by short fingers and short syndactyly.
Because many parents don't know about "Polish syndrome", when the baby has this condition, they will be very anxious.
In the outpatient clinic, a six-month-old baby is a Polish short finger, and his grandmother kept telling me that "I can't sleep at home every day", which is very distressing for the child.
Therefore, it is necessary for everyone to have a preliminary understanding of the "Polish syndrome" and not to be too anxious.
How to distinguish between "Polish syndrome" and short syndactyly?
As mentioned earlier, "Polish syndrome" is different from the usual short syndactyly, and its main feature is that it is accompanied by abnormal development of the thoracic cage, and the two are closely related.
The baby's chest dysplasia may also be reflected in the development of muscles, in the outpatient clinic, we see more of the baby's pectoralis major muscle, pectoralis minor muscle dysplasia, just like this baby from Henan, in the case of short syndactyly, the chest was also found to be abnormal, this is a typical "Polish syndrome".
Not a big problem: how to treat "Polish syndrome"?
Grandma is very worried about the situation on the child's hands, I told her, don't worry, whether it is short syndactyly or Polody syndrome short syndactyly, I have done a lot, is to divide the syndactyly, and then perform functional exercises after the syndactyly, if there are no special circumstances, the child can generally have surgery in six months, the sooner the operation, the better the plasticity of the baby's fingers, and the greater the space for recovery after surgery.
Syndactyly, it involves a question of whether to graft or not to graft.
In the past, the direct treatment was to remove skin from the baby's body parts, such as the soft belly, and perform skin grafting surgery.
However, this method has some drawbacks, such as the probability of skin graft necrosis, and the fact that this procedure will inevitably leave scar marks at the place where the skin was removed, and the transplanted area is not so natural.
Now there is a surgical plan without skin grafting, using artificial dermis to cover the wound to avoid the risk of graft necrosis, and induce the skin near the baby's wound to grow to the center through the artificial dermis, which will be closer to the surrounding normal skin.
Can baby "Polish" fingers still grow?
After many babies have undergone surgery, parents will ask me, after the fingers, do the baby's fingers grow a little longer?
In fact, on the one hand, during the operation, I will deepen the child's finger webs, so that the fingers will appear relatively long, which is more conducive to the child's hand function.
Half a year after surgery, flexible and strong small hands
Many parents reflect that children are more willing to use their hands after surgery to exercise, so that in the early stage of children's development, fingers get a lot of exercise, this process will stimulate the growth of fingers, so that the baby's fingers have the opportunity to grow longer.