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Epidemiology of Dupuytren’s Disease

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Dupuytren’s Disease

Abstract

The palmar contracture nowadays associated with Dupuytren’s name, had already been described by the Swiss physician Platter (1614) and Sir Astley Cooper (1824) in England before Baron Guillaume Dupuytren made it the subject of his famous lecture on the December 5, 1831 in Paris (Dupuytren 1832, 1834). Despite more than 160 years of investigation, the nature and demography of Dupuytren’s contracture are still not entirely clear (Berger et al. 1990).

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Brenner, P., Mailänder, P., Berger, A. (1994). Epidemiology of Dupuytren’s Disease. In: Berger, A., Delbrück, A., Brenner, P., Hinzmann, R. (eds) Dupuytren’s Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78517-7_25

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