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PRESENTATION OF A
SUPERNUMERARY DIGIT
PRESENTED BY: AKASH J SHAH PGY-2
MAIMONIDES MIDWOOD COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
HISTORY
• 30 y/o F presents with a painful left hallux. Patient states
that she banged and broke her left foot great toe several
years ago and was told that she had a small fragment of
bone under the toe nail
• Patient states that over the course of her healing, the left
foot great toe nail thickened and lift off her toe
PMH : unremarkable
PSHx: none
PHYSICAL
EXAMINATI
ON MUSCULOSKELETAL EXAM:
Muscle strength normal for
DERMATOLOGICAL EXAM:
LEFT hallux nail plate semi-
attached , dystrophic
plantarflexion, dorsiflexion,
with onycholysis; firm
inversion and eversion b/l;
protruding mass from the
ROM within normal ranges b/l
distal aspect of the left hallux
CLINICAL PRESENTATION