ABS Photos - Amniotic Band Syndrome - Amniotic Band Syndrome

ABS Photos

This photo gallery shows some of the effects of Amniotic Band Syndrome. Please feel free to send your photos and description for addition to the site.

	Name of Story+	Story Description
	Acrosyndactyly	Acrosyndactyly is a more complex type of syndactyly. The fingers had separated but a band formed around the fingers causing them to refuse during development.

	Amputated Big Toe	ABS is the most common cause of a congenital amputation of a limb/digit

	Banded foot	When bands wrap around limbs during development they can constrict the limb causing decreased blood supply and amputation.

	Banding on leg	This image shows a banding line on a newborn's leg.

	Cleft Lip & Palate	Oral clefting occurs when the tissues of the lip and/or palate of a fetus don't grow together early in pregnancy. Children with clefts often don't have enough tissue in their mouths, and the tissue they do have isn't fused together properly to form the roof of their mouths.

	Clubfeet Photo	A strong relationship between ABS and clubfoot exists. A 31.5% of associated clubfoot deformity and ABS can be correlated with 20% occurring bilaterally.

	Clubfoot Treatment	The accepted method of treating clubfeet is by the Ponseti method of Serial Plaster Casting. Treatment should be started right away. The initial treatment consists of manipulating the foot to get it to the best position possible, and then holding the correction in a cast...

	Distraction Augmentation Manoplasty	This surgery creates growth at the rate of an inch of bone a month, to create new palms and to lengthen the fingers. It consists of the insertion of a device through the bone which is a complex group of bars, nails and steel screws. It requires screwing several turns per day to reach a growth rate of up to 1 ml. daily.

	Nubbins	This is typical of Congenital Transverse Deficiency, a form of ABS. A short below-the-elbow amputation. The fingers may be represented only by nubbins or dimpling found on the end.

	Overlapping, Underlapping Toes	Congenital Overlapping toes are characterized by one toe lying on top of an adjacent toe. Congenital Underlapping toes usually involve the fourth and fifth toes

	Syndactyly - at birth	In this photo of Evan's hand at birth you can see the banding line from his wrist to his pinky finger and around the wrist. The three fingers are webbed together (syndactyly). His three fingers are small, with abnormal finger nails, and missing some joints, there is also some lymphedema (swelling at the joint) of the index finger middle joint.

	Syndactyly - Surgically Separated	This photo is after two operations that separated his webbed fingers (syndactyly).

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