[Dupuytren's contracture. A report of three cases in Black Africans]

Having reported the first case of Dupuytren's disease in West Africa in 1990, the authors report two further cases, which brings the number of Dupuytren's disease reported in West Africa to three. The authors demonstrate by a literature review, that numerous cases had in fact been described in black people since 1974. The factors which are incriminated are always alcoholism, microtrauma and other factors like diabetes. Dupuytren's disease appears to be a condition, which is actually not so rare in black people after all.