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| Clinodactyly Classification and external resources |
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| Moderate severity Clinodactyly | |
| ICD-9 | 755.59 |
| DiseasesDB | 16756 |
Clinodactyly is a medical term describing a bend or curvature of the fifth fingers (the "little fingers") toward the adjacent fourth fingers. It is a fairly common isolated anomaly which often goes unnoticed, but also occurs in combination with other abnormalities in many genetic syndromes, such as Russell-Silver syndrome or Down Syndrome. When identified in prenatal ultrasound, it is considered statistically correlated with increased risk of chromosome aberration in the fetus and may be an indication for intra-uterine sampling for fetal chromosome analysis.
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