The boy who was born with 15 fingers and 16 toes underwent surgery

A six-year-old boy displays his hands at a hospital in Shenyang, Liaoning province, April 8, 2010. The boy who was born with 15 fingers and 16 toes underwent surgery on March 23 to have the extra limbs removed, and after a recovery period he is scheduled to leave the hospital on April 12, China Daily reported.



A six-year-old boy looks at his hands at a hospital in Shenyang, Liaoning province, April 8, 2010. The boy who was born with 15 fingers and 16 toes underwent surgery on March 23 to have the extra limbs removed, and after a recovery period he is scheduled to leave the hospital on April 12, China Daily reported

Doctors check the feet of a six-year-old boy at a hospital in Shenyang, Liaoning province, April 8, 2010. The boy who was born with 15 fingers and 16 toes underwent surgery on March 23 to have the extra limbs removed, and after a recovery period he is scheduled to leave the hospital on April 12, China Daily reported

The boy appeared to suffer from central polydactyly, where an extra digit of long or ring finger is concealed in a web.

A 6-year-old boy from China, who was born with 5 extra fingers and 6 extra toes, has undergone an operation to remove his extra digits, the Daily Mail reported. If you do the math – that’s 31 fingers and toes.

The unnamed child suffered from a condition known as polydactyly, in which a person has more than five fingers per hand and five toes per foot. This condition can occur on its own without any other symptoms or underlying disease, according to the National Institutes of Health, or may be inherited.

In this case, the boy appeared to have central polydactyly, where an extra digit of a long or ring finger is concealed in a web between the adjoining normal fingers.

The boy’s mother said he has been ridiculed all his life because of the malformation, but thanks to a six hour surgery at a hospital in Shenyang, China, doctors were able to remove the extra toes and fingers.