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Introduction: Radial club hand is characterized by radial deviation of the hand, as a result of hypoplasia or absence of the radius., Material and Methods: A descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional and observational study of active patients diagnosed with radial club hand at the Shriners-Mexico Hospital was carried out., Results: We studied 71 patients and 92 limbs, the prevalence was 0.08%, 64.7% were men and 35.3% women. We observed 22 patients with involvement of the right thoracic extremity, 28 left and 21 bilateral. It was found that 93% of the patients had an associated syndrome. The most common type of radial longitudinal dysplasia was type 1. 58 limbs did not have a thumb. The State of Mexico is the most affected and 91.6% had a guardian with maximum high school education.

We describe a patient presenting with upperextremity longitudinal dysplasia in whom the humerus was buried within the tissues of the chest wall. Surgery was performed to elevate the left humerus from the upper chest and place it within the empty soft tissue envelope, which extended distally from the shoulder. To our knowledge, this particular anomaly has not been previously described in the literature.