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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Main Author: Claude Bernard Dupuytren’s Private
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Iceland
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spelling ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.637.3625 2023-05-15T16:48:36+02:00 HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE Claude Bernard Dupuytren’s Private The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.637.3625 http://www.turner-white.com/pdf/hp_may99_dupu.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.637.3625 http://www.turner-white.com/pdf/hp_may99_dupu.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.turner-white.com/pdf/hp_may99_dupu.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T15:45:44Z 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 Text Iceland Unknown
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