Dupuytren contracture

Diagnosis certain

66-year-old man with flexor deformity in 3rd finger

  • subcutaneous nodules at the level of the distal palmar
  • stenosing tenosynovitis
  • soft-tissue mass
  • Viking disease, or palmar fibromatosis
  • A fibrosing condition that presents as a firm nodularity on the palmar surface of the hand with coalescing cords of soft tissue on the webs and digits
  • The most common of the superficial fibromatoses
  • Patients typically present with palmar surface subcutaneous nodules, which may progress to cords and bands and finally, the characteristic flexion contracture secondary to fibrous attachments to the underlying tendon sheath.
  • Bilateral in about half of cases
  • The 4th ray is typically involves
  • US: nodules superficial to the flexor tendons in the superficial fascia of the palm, hypoechoic in the initial phase but hyperechoic in the chronic phase
  • MRI: typically low T1 and T2 signal (atypical form with intermetiate T1 signal)

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