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A new treatment for parrot beak deformity of the toe
M Kurokawa1, N Isshiki, K Inoue
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kyoto University School of Medicine, Japan.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
|March 1, 1994
Abstract:
Two cases of congenital parrot beak deformity of the toe were treated by pushing back the nail plate, nailbed, matrix, and proximal skin fold in one piece as a flap. The proximal skin portion of this flap was deepithelialized to facilitate this shift, and thus no dog-ear deformity was produced. The distal skin defect of the pulp was covered by a palmar advancement flap. This method does not require augmentation of the fingertip or toetip and is very useful for correcting parrot beak deformities of the toes.