[Experience with the palliative surgical treatment of Dupytren's contracture].

The article describes indications, preparing and operative technique of partial aponeuroectomy with dissection of the zone of higher afferent innervation of palmar aponeurosis and postoperative treatment of the patients. Two hundred operations were performed under conditions of the out-patient clinic. The I and II degree contractures were successfully treated in 96.7% of the cases. Satisfactory results were obtained in patients with the IIId degree of the disease.