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Abstract
A W-M plasty is described as a means of establishing an interdigital web in the repair of congenital syndactyly. 25 cases of congenital syndactyly were operated using this method. The web created did not advance distally, nor cause a transverse scar-band.
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Article info
Publication history
Accepted:
November 19,
1992
Received:
August 21,
1992
Footnotes
This paper was presented at the 12th congress of the Turkish Society of Plastic Surgery in Ku¸adasi, October 27–30, 1990.
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© 1993 The British Asscociation of Plastic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc.
