Dupuytren's disease and the sickle-cell trait in a female black patient.

Dupuytren's contracture is not often seen in the black-skinned patient. The combination of a Dupuytren's contracture in a black female patient who also carried the sickle-cell trait is described. This association of two diseases in a dark skinned patient has important surgical and anaesthetic implications which must not be forgotten in those countries with a large number of immigrants from the "sickle-cell" areas of the world.