On the emerging evidence of a new category of duplication in the human hand: The dorsoventral duplication

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1233-1239

  Al Qattan, M M ^a,b  

^a King Saud University ^*

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HAND MALFORMATION; HUMAN; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; POLYDACTYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; HAND DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MICE; POLYDACTYLY;

EID: 14944376970     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000135859.16478.20     Document Type: Review

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