Contractures

Credit goes to Donald H. LaLonde, MD, FRCSC, at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, who helped debunk the idea that epinephrine is unsafe to use in digits and developed more comfortable methods of local anesthesia.

Large randomized controlled trials comparing the treatment of Dupuytren’s contractures by needle fasciotomy and limited fasciectomy are feasible, according to results of a recently published study.