Congenital Hand Anomalies

9-15 March 2025

The congress will tackle different complex cases of congenital hand anomalies.

The congress is in english.

Inscription

Subjects discussed

Developmental biology of the fingers

Radial Club Hand, Bayne 2; Bayne 3,4

Pollicisation

Mirror Hand

Toe-to-hand transfer

Syndactyly

Central synpolydactyly

Camptodactyly

Cleft hand

Faculty

Stéphane Guero, Paris

Wiebke Hulsemann, Hamburg

Guillaume Canaud, Paris

Mona Winge, Oslo

Chiara Novelli, Milano

Daniel Weber, Zurich

Vladimir Zavarukhin, St Petersburg

Filip Stockmans, Bruges

Program of the 9th Alpine Meeting

Châtel, March 9-15 2025

Sunday, March the 9^th, 7 pm: welcome cocktail-dinatoire. Hotel Macchi

Monday 10/3

Morning, 8-10 am. Central polydactyly. Embryology Stéphane Guero. Duplication of the 4^th ray Marie Le Mapihan. Two cases report of camptodactyly: Casper Ottessen.

Evening, 5:30-7:30 pm. Simple Syndactyly release: Vladimir Zavarukhin. Re-syndactyly with severe flexion contracture: two different therapy options: Wiebke Hulsemann.

Tuesday 11/3

Morning, 8-10 am. microsurgical solutions for restoration of bilateral grip: Vladimir Zavarukhin. Polysyndactyly, balancing MP-ulnar deviation and extensor/flexor defects to a grasp-release function? Anders Kjorup.

Evening, 5:30-7:30 pm. Pollicisation Vladimir Zavarukhin. Blauth 3B: Status on hemimetatarsal transfer: Anders Kjorup. Last results on research on radial club hand: George Murphy

Wednesday 12/3

Morning, 8-10 am. Elbow session: Congenital anomalies of the Elbow: Filip Stockmans. Elbow in ulna dimelia: Mona Winge; Anders Kjorup: case report. Ulna dimelia, function after proximal resection. Radio-ulnar synostosis: Ernst Smits

Evening, 5:30-7:30 pm. Cleft hand Manske type III: Does the preservation of the index make sense?: Wiebke Hulsemann. Ulnar cleft of the hand: Stéphane Guero

Thursday 13/3

Morning, 8-10 am: Wiebke Hulsemann & Daniel Weber: “Aesthetics as a guidance for operation”. Presentation of the next issue of the Alpine meeting in 2026, in Obergurgl, Austria by Lisa Mailander

Evening, 5:30-7:30 pm: Overgrowth syndromes: new insights. Guillaume Canaud. Case report from Anders: Macrodactyly, hemidactyly debulking (presented by Karina Liv Hansen). Chiara? Macrodactyly. Indications and limits for surgery: Isabelle James

Friday 14/3

Morning, 8-10 am: Ulnar cleft hand: Wiebke Hulsemann. OR… when and how use the Alpelisib: Guillaume Canaud. Cases reports: Isabelle James and Wiebke Hulsemann.

Evening, 5:30-7:30 pm: Thumb duplication type 3-4 diamond shape: Vladimir Zavarukhin. Buschke-Ollendorff Syndrome, Congenital Linear Scleroderma – 3 Cases: difficult to differentiate and treat: Wiebke Hulsemann.