Dupuytren's Disease
Subtitle: Pathobiochemistry and Clinical Management
Publisher: Springer
Published: January 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9783540572398
Subjects: Human biology; Medical research; Orthopaedics & fractures; Pre-Clinical Medicine: Basic Sciences; Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Diseases - Extremities
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).