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🔴Hepatology Bedside Pearls
✅Dupuytren's Contracture
("Hand of Papal Benediction)
🔶Guillaume Dupuytren(1777-1835)
✔fibroproliferative thickening of plamar fascia on ulnar side
✔ALD, c/c lung ds(esp TB), epileptic Rx, male smokers>60, DM
✔65% b/l
Guillaume Dupuytren- a fantastic surgeon with an abrasive personality. Was supposedly so filthy rich that he had the audacity to offer 💰 to King Charles X!
(S Mangione, Phy diag secrets 2nd Ed)

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