dupuytren

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{i} family name; Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835), French surgeon and anatomist

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Dupuytren's contracture

{i} condition of thickening of the connective tissue causing one or more fingers to be bent permanently into the palm so that they cannot be extended (named after Baron Guillaume Dupuytren)

Guillaume Dupuytren

{i} Baron Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835), French anatomist and surgical pathologist

Guillaume Dupuytren

later Baron Dupuytren born Oct. 5, 1777, Pierre-Buffière, near Limoges, Fr. died Feb. 8, 1835, Paris French surgeon and pathologist. Dupuytren was the first to excise the lower jaw and to clearly describe the pathology of congenital hip dislocation. He revised the classification of burns and devised surgery for cervical cancer and for creation of an artificial anus, among other advances. He is best known for surgical procedures to alleviate Dupuytren contracture, in which fibrosis in the palm causes permanent retraction of one or more fingers