A landmark advance in understanding Dupuytren’s
Two methods of investigating Dupuytren’s have been used: Demographic – family studies, associations with medications, activities, other diseases; and Biological – tissue analysis. The big biologic breakthrough came in 1972 when Gabbiani and others published two articles back to back findings on the biology of myofibroblasts: https://dupuytrens.org/DupPDFs/1971_Gabbiani.pdf and the role of myofibroblasts in Dupuytren’s Disease: […]
