Lam Wee Leon, Hardwicke Joseph, Laitung Gerard
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Royal Preston Hospital, Preston, UK.
Scand J Plast Reconstr Surg Hand Surg. 2009;43(5):294-5. doi: 10.3109/02844310701510298.
We present an 81-year-old man with untreated bilateral syndactyly. Hand function and cosmesis did not concern him but long-term use of the hand resulted in chronic skin changes from friction, and the subsequent development of a squamous cell carcinoma.