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Human Dupuytren's Ex Vivo Culture for the Study of Myofibroblasts and Extracellular Matrix Interactions
Published on: April 18, 2015
Dupuytren's disease involving Guyon's canal
M Juvenspan1, C Schlur2, L Thomsen2
1Clinique La Montagne, 10, rue de la Montagne, 92400 Courbevoie, France; Institut français de chirurgie de la main, 5, rue du Dôme, 75116 Paris, France.
Abstract:
Ectopic localization of Dupuytren's contracture is extremely rare. To the best of our knowledge, there have been only six cases reported in the literature. The authors present a case with Dupuytren's contracture involving Guyon's canal where the patient had limited wrist range of motion and ulnar neuropathy.
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