Perilunate Injuries as an Important Cause of Hand Morbidity

fall injuries: an important preventable cause of trauma

Perilunate Injuries: In Brief

2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Perilunate injuries result from high-energy trauma to the carpus. Early diagnosis and treatment is essential to optimizing outcome. Initial management should consist of closed reduction of any carpal malalignment. Subsequent open reduction with percutaneous pinning or internal screw fixation and soft tissue repair i...

Fall Injuries: An Important Preventable Cause of Trauma

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Fall is one of the most common causes of major injuries and responsible for many hospital admissions in Iran (1, 2). Falling may happen at any age, but children and the ...

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...

Sports injuries: An important cause of morbidity in urban youth. District of Columbia Child/Adolescent Injury Research Network.

INTRODUCTION Sports injuries account for substantial morbidity and medical cost. To direct intervention, a population-based study of the causes and types of sports injuries was undertaken. METHOD An injury surveillance system was established at all trauma center hospitals that treat residents 10 to 19 years old in the District of Columbia and the Chief Medical Examiner's Office. Medical recor...