Discovery of New Treatment for Hand Disorder Affecting Millions Shown Promising

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 17:07 in Health & Medicine

Researchers in the Department of Orthopaedics at Stony Brook University Medical Center have developed an injectable form of the enzyme, collagenase, that significantly improves outcomes of Dupuytren�s contracture (or disease), a debilitating disorder caused by progressive accumulation of collagen that deforms fingers and limits motion.

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