Impaction-fracture of the capitate and lunate: a case report.

نویسندگان

  • Joshua Chong Yew Ong
  • Brian Meldan Devitt
  • Micheal Edmund O'Sullivan
چکیده

We report a 15-year-old girl who underwent a mid-carpal fusion for undiagnosed impaction-fractures of the capitate, lunate, and triquetrum after a fall on her outstretched left hand in a dorsiflexed and radially deviated position. The joint was dis-impacted, and the height of the lunate was restored using a cortical bone graft. The damaged proximal capitate articular surface was decorticated to facilitate fusion, as was the lunotriquetral articulation. Kirschner wires were inserted along the coronal plane. At the one-year follow-up, the patient had achieved a satisfactory range of motion and fusion of the capitate-lunate-triquetral articulations.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of orthopaedic surgery

دوره 20 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012