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Hand Contracture
Introduction
Differential Diagnosis of Causes of Hand contracture
Differential Diagnosis of Causes of Hand contracture
In alphabetical order. [1] [2]
- Acrosclerosis
- Alcoholic Cirrhosis
- Becker’s Muscular Dystrophy
- Cerebral Palsy
- Claw hand
- Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy
- Dupuytren’s contracture
- Gout
- Hand callosity
- Hurler’s Syndrome
- Immobilization
- Inherited disorders
- Injury
- Nerve damage, degeneration
- Raynaud’s Disease
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Scleroderma
- Stenosing tendovaginitis
- Ulnar lesion
- Volkmann’s contracture
- Wrist drop
References
References
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]