DUPUYTRENS DISEASE OCCURRING AFTER A SURGICAL INJURY TO THE HAND

We report three clinical cases in which Dupuytren's disease was trigge red by surgical trauma, All patients developed the contracture between 3 weeks and 3 months after operation for unrelated pathology of the h and, They had significant swelling of the hand postoperatively, preven ting full mobilization. They did not have a strong diathesis for the d isease, Since the appearance of the contracture, they have not develop ed the disease in the contralateral hand or anywhere else in the body. In one case, a similar operation on the contralateral hand has not pr ovoked onset of the disease.