[Preliminary report of the results of syndactyly surgery].

In the course of the past nine years, 68 patients (42 boys, 26 girls) were surgically treated for syndactylism in 84 hands. In doing so, 135 syndactylies occurring mostly in the form of severe malformations of the hand were separated. In most cases the web spaces were made according to the surgical techniques developed by Blauth. With the exception of eight cases where secondary corrections had to be made due to shallow web spaces or to scarring, all results were highly satisfactory. The authors tend to evaluate any evidence of such disadvantageous scarring as a change which should be considered as "recurring syndactylism".