[Ambulatory surgical treatment of patients with Dupuytren's contracture]

Experience in surgical treatment of 61 outpatients (64 hands) is discussed. The organization of treatment was accomplished stage-by-stage: stage I, detection, selection, examination, preoperative management, stage II, operation in an in-patient operating room, stage III, postoperative management of a patient. Postoperative complications in the form of partial necrosis of the edge of the wound developed in 3 patients. The late-term functional postoperative results were studied in 25 patients; they were good in 17 and satisfactory in 8 patients. Thus, high clinical efficacy was demonstrated in out-patient treatment of Dupuytren's++'s contracture by the method described.