Continuum Wellness News » polydactyly http://continuumwellness.org/blog Body, Mind & Soul Wellness Sat, 12 May 2012 15:38:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Boy Born with 15 Fingers and 16 Toes http://continuumwellness.org/blog/boy-born-15-fingers-16-toes/ http://continuumwellness.org/blog/boy-born-15-fingers-16-toes/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:08:44 +0000 continuum wellness http://continuumwellness.org/blog/?p=1558 Read more »]]> A six-year-old boy with 15 fingers and 16 toes has undergone surgery to remove his extra digits. The unnamed Chinese child had four fingers on one hand and three on the other fused together.

He now has ten fingers and ten toes following a six-and-a-half hour operation at a hospital in Shenyang, Liaoning, to remove the surplus 11 digits. The story is here the photos are amazing. Although it is not that unusual to have extra digits, this is most ever recorded.

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