Dupuytren's Disease
Subtitle: Pathobiochemistry and Clinical Management
Contributors: R. Hinzmann (Editor)
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Telos
Published: June 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780387572390
First sentence: The digitopalmar contracture named after DUPUYTREN (1831, 1832), is a fibrous, proliferative hyperplasia of pre-existing connective tissue structures of the fascia of the fingers and palm, also called the digitopalmar continuum (Fig. 1a and b) (BRENNER, 1997).