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Mayo Clinic: Dupuytren's Contracture - Overview covers symptoms and treatment of this rare hand deformity.
MedicineNet - Dupuytren Contracture - Presents the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
Surgical Treatment of Post-Burn Contractures of the Hand - Features photographs of before and after. Also provides a summary of the details.
MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Contracture Deformity - Provides a definition, causes, and considerations.
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man - Description of the state of knowledge of Lethal Congenital Contracture Syndrome (Herva Syndrome), and references thereto.
Dupuytren's Contracture - Provides an overview, the treatment, and the surgical procedures to correct it.
New Approach for Dupuytren's Contracture: A Newsmaker Interview With Charles Eaton, MD - Medscape article on needle aponeurotomy as a treatment for this condition.
Dupuytren's Contracture - Discussion paper prepared for The Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal. Provides photographs and an overview.
eMedicine - Dupuytren Contracture - Provides an introduction, clinical features, treatment, differentials, and medications.
Scars and Contractures: Prevention - Find details on both conditions from Children's Hospital Boston.

Interplast - Interplast is the first international humanitarian organization to provide free reconstructive surgery in developing countries, primarily to children with cleft lip and palate and burn scar contractures.