A diabetic patient presenting with stiff hand following fasciectomy for Dupuytren's contracture: A case report

Reported is the case of a 68-year-old male presenting with severe wrist and hand stiffness following surgery for a Dupuytren's contracture. Complications of surgery or rehabilitation and complex regional pain syndrome were excluded as factors explaining this stiffness. Given the patient's...

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Autores principales: Fournier, Katia, Papanas, Nikolaos, Compson, Jonathan P, Maltezos, Efstratios
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2582033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18954458
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-277
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author Fournier, Katia
Papanas, Nikolaos
Compson, Jonathan P
Maltezos, Efstratios
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Papanas, Nikolaos
Compson, Jonathan P
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description Reported is the case of a 68-year-old male presenting with severe wrist and hand stiffness following surgery for a Dupuytren's contracture. Complications of surgery or rehabilitation and complex regional pain syndrome were excluded as factors explaining this stiffness. Given the patient's diabetes mellitus and the striking similarity with the typical diabetic stiff hand, it is suggested that diabetes may have contributed to the development of the complication.
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spelling pubmed-25820332008-11-11 A diabetic patient presenting with stiff hand following fasciectomy for Dupuytren's contracture: A case report Fournier, Katia Papanas, Nikolaos Compson, Jonathan P Maltezos, Efstratios Cases J Case Report Reported is the case of a 68-year-old male presenting with severe wrist and hand stiffness following surgery for a Dupuytren's contracture. Complications of surgery or rehabilitation and complex regional pain syndrome were excluded as factors explaining this stiffness. Given the patient's diabetes mellitus and the striking similarity with the typical diabetic stiff hand, it is suggested that diabetes may have contributed to the development of the complication. BioMed Central 2008-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2582033/ /pubmed/18954458 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-277 Text en Copyright © 2008 Fournier et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Fournier, Katia
Papanas, Nikolaos
Compson, Jonathan P
Maltezos, Efstratios
A diabetic patient presenting with stiff hand following fasciectomy for Dupuytren's contracture: A case report
title A diabetic patient presenting with stiff hand following fasciectomy for Dupuytren's contracture: A case report
title_full A diabetic patient presenting with stiff hand following fasciectomy for Dupuytren's contracture: A case report
title_fullStr A diabetic patient presenting with stiff hand following fasciectomy for Dupuytren's contracture: A case report
title_full_unstemmed A diabetic patient presenting with stiff hand following fasciectomy for Dupuytren's contracture: A case report
title_short A diabetic patient presenting with stiff hand following fasciectomy for Dupuytren's contracture: A case report
title_sort diabetic patient presenting with stiff hand following fasciectomy for dupuytren's contracture: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2582033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18954458
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-277
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