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Dupuytren's contracture

superficial fibromatosis arising from the soft tissue of the palm
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q1330254
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Summary

Dupuytren's contracture is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 0.51% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,933 views/month, #10 of 1,968).[2]

Key Facts

  • Named after: Guillaume Dupuytren[3]
  • Subclass of: fibromatosis[4], contracture[5], superficial fibromatosis[6], flexion contracture of finger[7]
  • Commons category: Dupuytren's contracture[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Dupuytren's contracture[9]
  • Described by source: The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[10]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C3469[11]
  • Different from: Pott's fracture[12]
  • Health specialty: orthopedics[13]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0005679[14]

Why It Matters

Dupuytren's contracture has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

Bill Nighy disease orthopedics

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Human Phenotype Ontology release 2018-03-08. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14d ago · فيصل · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'dag', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fa',
    Described by source → The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)
    Sitelink count → 38
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Described by source: The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)"
  2. 14w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → class of disease
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39873|batch #39873]]: P31 = "type of disease""
  3. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0008274-Dupuytrenova-kontraktura
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0008274-Dupuytrenova-kontraktura, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Health specialty → orthopedics
    Named after → —
    Instance of → class of disease
    Topic's main category → Category:Dupuytren's contracture
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|16 */ Yso id: 29502, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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