Macrodactyly (Macrodactyiy)

Macrodactyly (Macrodactyiy) is an abnormal increase in the size of one or more fingers or toes.

This is a rare congenital disorder that is characterized by excessive growth of bones and soft tissue in the fingers. With macrodactyly, the fingers are significantly longer and thicker than normal fingers. The enlargement may affect all phalanges of the fingers or only the terminal phalanges.

The causes of macrodactyly are not fully understood. It is assumed that the disease is associated with disorders in the genes responsible for regeneration



Macrodactyly is a disease in which one finger or several fingers or toes are noticeably different from their counterparts in size. The affected sign may not be developed in all phalanges of the big toe, not only in one big toe, but in several. The development of macrodactyly in patients may be accompanied by other



Macrodacty is a rare hereditary disease in which one or more fingers or toes increase in size. The big fingers and toes resemble each other, but the big toes can be larger. Although it may be considered an exceptional anomaly, it can sometimes manifest itself as a genetic predisposition.

Chronic osteoarthritis of the thumbs was described in 1998 by doctors at the McGoo Clinic. The disease was associated with the removal of the thumb joints during prosthetics. In these cases, the levels of the thumbs were higher than the others. A similar case of macudation was found in a Japanese man named Akira Yoshimura in 2011, who was a member of the country's Olympic team.



Macrodactylation, or “very long fingers,” is a fairly rare abnormality in the development of fingers or toes. In some cases, these pathologies are hereditary, and, unfortunately, there is no cure for them. Moreover, it is not always possible to unambiguously determine the causes of such an anomaly. But in medicine there are several types of treatment that help cope with these anomalies.

The cause of this disease is still unclear. However, one of the hypotheses suggests that in the course of evolution, humans have developed not only two types of limbs, but also different forms of their mobility, therefore such features are quite common among various biological species. As for a person, the anatomy of his limbs is as follows: the body of the limb is formed from two sections - the proximal, called the arm or leg segment, and the distal, called the hand or foot. The bones of the fingers or feet, as a rule, are “responsible” for these sections, in pairs on each organ