Talk:Ectrodactyly

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Initial comment (when the article was at "Lobster hand")

i might move this to: 'congenital cleft hand or foot', it's more PC and more consistent to what i wrote about — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tristanb (talk • contribs) 08:26, 14 April 2003 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, hopefully somone will read this. I found this line "It affects about 1 in 90,000 babies, with males and females equally as likely to be affected." on the wiki page. And when reading it it seemed a little hight. I looked it up, and found this page : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=183600 which is presumably wher the creator of this article got the stat from. It says that somone estimated in 1949 in denmark that the occourance rate is 1 in 90,000. It doesn't seem to me that that is fact, and so I would have taken it out of the article, but I don;t know how wikipedia treats that so I created this talk page. 66.108.49.233 05:13, 30 January 2007 (UTC)micah[reply]

I agree, I may not be a doctor, but with a 1 in 90,000 rate, that's about 70,000 or so people suffering it worldwide, and it doesn't seem right.

--66.201.165.240 01:15, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistent definition?

The article describes the condition as "deformity of the hand where the middle digit is missing" but is followed by images clearly showing a hand with two digits missing, as well as feet! The definition is clearly not general enough. 121.44.118.31 (talk) 12:45, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge: Cleft hand into Ectrodactyly

Support

Support. It's going to take a little bit of work, though. Mattopaedia ^{Say G'Day!} 21:59, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Oppose. There's nothing wrong with the articles as they are, why break something that's fixed? --75.227.123.67 (talk) 15:50, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

The pages should be merged, a cleft hand IS ectrodactyly. Those stats are correct. Ectrodactyly is usually a part of EEC, although it can present by itself, isolated ectrodactyly. There are 70,000 people with some form of it. It's on every continent and affects every race, ethnicity and gender. It is hereditary and is still occurring spontaneously. There are several EEC/Ectrodactyly groups on Facebook alone. All of which I'm a member of.

Thanks. Have found a plastic surgery text that supports the merge aswell and thus merged. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 04:07, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]