Open and Arthroscopic Treatment of Perilunate Injuries
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Perilunate injuries: diagnosis and treatment.
Perilunate injuries are severe disruptions of the carpus, which present a formidable challenge to the treating physician. Accurate recognition of the pattern of injury is not always straightforward. The injury can propagate through ligaments and/or bone, creating multiple variations of a basic injury pattern. Posteroanterior and lateral radiographs will depict a perilunate injury, but additiona...
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OBJECTIVE In this study, eighteen patients who have had perilunate injury with dislocation or fracture, were evaluated and the patho-mechanics and surgical treatment were studied. SUBJECTS AND METHODS According to the Green and O'Brien's classification, type 1 injury occurred in one patient, type 2 in nine, type 4A in five, type 4C in one and type 4D in one. The other one case could not be cl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0009-921X
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000205889.11824.03