Boy With 31 fingers And Toes To Have Surgery

A boy in China who has 31 fingers and toes - a world record - is to undergo surgery to remove the extras digits. The 6-year-old boy, from the city of Shenyang in China's northeastern Liaoning province, has 16 toes and 15 fingers (although one of those fingers is incomplete, being a fork at the end of the right thumb.) Three fingers on each hand are fused together.

The boy will go under the surgeon's knife to remove the additional digits. This condition is known as polydactyly, in which one of a variety of genetic disorders gives rise to the supernumerary digits.