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The cute baby's hands and feet are wrapped around the amniotic band, and the fingers are squeezed together, can the 5 fingers be separated?

author:Chen Jianghai, Department of Hand and Foot Surgery, Union Hospital

"I'll try to make a long story short......"

As soon as the father with a Sichuan accent sat down, he excitedly told me about the experience of the family seeking medical treatment in just five months.

His lovely daughter, when she was just born, was found to have some abnormalities in her hands and feet, it turned out that the right hand and right foot of the female treasure were entangled by the amniotic band, especially the small toes on the feet were "hidden" in the flesh, squeezed together, which made people feel very distressed.

Not only that, but the female treasure's hands and feet also have different degrees of syndactyly.

The cute baby's hands and feet are wrapped around the amniotic band, and the fingers are squeezed together, can the 5 fingers be separated?

"Little Tuantuan" small feet

"We said we wouldn't be able to do it until we were a year old, and we might only be able to separate the thumbs, and the rest of the toes didn't mean much......"

They went to several hospitals, but the results were unsatisfactory, but the parents did not want to give up, they wanted to give their children a result without regrets, and finally tried their best to find Wuhan, hoping to get a different answer from me.

The cute baby's hands and feet are wrapped around the amniotic band, and the fingers are squeezed together, can the 5 fingers be separated?

Right foot strap

"5 fingers at a time, you can do it in 6 months"

"Is that okay?

My words made the child's father's eyes light up, and he looked at his mother in surprise, and his mother was also surprised, and they were very nervous when they came, but now they are relieved.

The cute baby's hands and feet are wrapped around the amniotic band, and the fingers are squeezed together, can the 5 fingers be separated?

There is also syndactyly on the hands

I told them that the syndactyly (toes) caused by this band syndrome are not the same as the general syndactyly, the baby's fingers are curled together, it is difficult to distinguish the ulnar side and radial side, and there is basically no function at all, so if you want to separate the 5 fingers, its complexity is also correspondingly increased, which is what parents need to know.

Can you not take the skin from her body?

The baby's parents did not want to have skin grafting, because the baby had already had a finger surgery before, and the local hospital gave a plan to carry out skin grafting, and finally fortunately, the child's adhesion site wound was relatively small, so there was no skin grafting, but it also brought them a lot of worry.

The cute baby's hands and feet are wrapped around the amniotic band, and the fingers are squeezed together, can the 5 fingers be separated?

Immediately after surgery

Compared with the previous skin grafting methods, the technology of artificial dermis induction without skin grafting does not have the possibility of skin grafting necrosis, and parents are very relieved that they are reluctant to hurt the child elsewhere.

How long does the surgery take?

"Is it really going to take about four hours!

I smiled and said, "What? Do you think it's been a long time?"

"No, no, we were pleasantly surprised!"

Because the child had deformities in all four limbs, we tried to solve these problems in one operation.

After the child met the requirements of the operation at 6 months, we performed the operation for her as scheduled, and successfully separated the "little tuan" on the baby's feet, and now she can stretch out her cute little feet, and at the same time, the straps on her hands and feet have also been separated.

The cute baby's hands and feet are wrapped around the amniotic band, and the fingers are squeezed together, can the 5 fingers be separated?

Immediately after surgery on the right foot

Although the baby has a new finger "from scratch", but parents can not relax, postoperative functional exercise is the key to the baby's recovery, parents need to patiently guide the baby, actively cooperate with us, and work together for the baby's newborn!