jeremy beadles hand - genuine question

[joko]

this is not a dig at jb.

i was wondering what was wrong with his hand?

is it just a miniature formed hand or are half his fingers missing?

how did this happen? from birth or just stopped growing as a child?

what causes this?

thanks

[andy-hughes]

It is a 'minature' hand, i.e. not properly developed, and he was born with it.

[bernardo]

I'm not sure if it's got as specific name, but I think I read somewhere that the fingers were fused together at birth (like webbed feet), and they had to cut the joins of skin between the fingers to separate them.

[woofgang]

its called "Poland Syndrome"

what's really nasty is the horrible comments on websites that I found while researching this

here is the poland syndrome website

http://www.polands-syndrome.com/

[joko]

thanks all, i'd never heard of that before