Congenital upper limb anomaly as a cause of physical handicap

This study comprised of cases who attended hospital to obtain physical handicap certificate only and none had any therapeutic intervention. There was no case of total handicap. Incidence of congenital upper limb anomalies was higher in this series. More males were affected than females; there were more right sided defects than left. No definitive causes for the deformities could be isolated, chromosomal abnormality studies might have revealed etiology.