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Dupuytren’s Disease Occurring after a Surgical Injury to the Hand

From the Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Correspondence: Marco Lanzetta, MD, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Milan, Via Donizetti 106, 20052 Monza, Milaao, Italy.

We report three clinical cases in which Dupuytren’s disease was triggered by surgical trauma. All patients developed the contracture between 3 weeks and 3 months after operation for unrelated / pathology of the hand. They had significant swelling of the hand postoperatively, preventing full mobilization. They did not have a strong diathesis for the disease. Since the appearance of the contracture, they have not developed the disease in the contralateral hand or anywhere else in the body. In one case, a similar operation on the contralateral hand has not provoked onset of the disease.

Journal of Hand Surgery (British and European Volume), Vol. 21, No. 4, 481-483 (1996)
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-7681(96)80050-7


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