title: [Results of surgical treatment for Dupuytren contracture].
abstract: Early and late results of surgical treatment for Dupuytren contracture within 53 hands in 47 patients aged 19-72 (mean 58) are presented. Early results depended on magnitude of deformity and late ones (3-7 years after surgery) depended on recurrence of the contracture. In patients who had rheumatoid arthritis or the results were slightly worse; pathological changes within the hand were to blame and not the recurrence of contracture itself. No difference in histopathology of this condition was observed between rheumatoid arthritis-group- and ankylosing spondylitis patients.
authors.affiliation: Kliniki Ortopedii Katedry Reumatologii Sl. AM, Katowicach.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gaździk
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wasilewski
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications; D004387:Dupuytren Contracture / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D016896:Treatment Outcome
vernacular_title: Wyniki leczenia operacyjnego przykurczu Dupuytrena.