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 * Polydactyly By t Evelyn Berecz Room D202, LMS- Polydactyly is a disorder in which the affected person has extra digits. Thesymptoms include extra toes and/or fingers. There are a few different causesof this disease including no know reason, genemutations, being passed downthrough a family, and it can be partof a syndrome or other disorders. There aremany syndromes andother disorders that can cause polydactyly. Some are Pfeiffer Syndrome, a genetic disorder in which he skull bones fuse together too  early which causes abnormal size or shape of the skull.It also causes toes and finger to be right. Another disorder is Syndactyly;this disorder causes webbed digits and duplicated fourth digits. There is treatment which is surgery to remove the extra finger or toe. Some otherinteresting facts about Polydactyly are it is not life threatening, andsomething called longitudal epiphyseal bracket can occur, which means that a bone hardened where it should not. They can fix this disorder. In  <span style="display: block; font-family: "trebuchet ms",helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> conclusion, polydactyly is a disorder that is not so bad after all.  ||   || <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Digit Hospital in Philadelphia
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