The Treatment of Perilunate Injuries
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
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...
متن کاملPerilunate 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...
متن کاملTraumatic mechanisms and therapeutic results of the perilunate injuries.
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...
متن کاملUnreported Ipsilateral Injuries Concurrent with Perilunate Dislocation:a Case Report
A 16 year old, right hand dominant worker sustained a severe injury after his shirt had been caught by a kind of a roller. On evaluation, he had complaints of numbness and paresthesias in the hand with diffuse tenderness, swelling and deformities of the wrist, forearm and the arm. Circulation seemed to be impaired, but radial and ulnar pulses could be palpated, although with difficulty because ...
متن کاملTrans-Scaphoid Perilunate Fracture-Dislocation and Isolated Perilunate Dislocations; Surgical Versus Non Surgical Treatment
Background: Trans-scaphoid perilunate fracture-dislocation and perilunate dislocations are among uncommon injuries, most commonly seen in young patients due to high energy trauma. The treatment can be achieved either surgically by open reduc tion and internal fixation or closed reduction and casting. Methods: To compare surgical versus non-operative results of treatment of trans-scaphoid pe...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Wrist Surgery
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2163-3916,2163-3924
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1550094