HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE
upuytren’s contracture, a contracture of the palmar fascia that usually causes the ring and lit-tle fingers to bend into the palm so they cannot be extended (Sidebar), has been described in medical literature for more than 700 years. Cases of Dupuytren’s contracture were recorded in the Orkney Islan...
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| Summary: | upuytren’s contracture, a contracture of the palmar fascia that usually causes the ring and lit-tle fingers to bend into the palm so they cannot be extended (Sidebar), has been described in medical literature for more than 700 years. Cases of Dupuytren’s contracture were recorded in the Orkney Islands and Iceland as early as the 12th century1 and folk-lore sagas tell of miraculous cures of hands so crippled that all the fingers pulled into the palm.2 Today, Dupuytren’s contracture is commonly described in asso-ciation with such etiologies as chronic alcoholism, dia-betes mellitus, phenytoin therapy, chronic vibration ex-posure (eg, work with a jackhammer),3 polyvinyl chloride bagging and packing, trauma, HIV,4 and hemodialysis.5 |
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