Triquetral fractures are the second most common carpal fractures. Triquetral body fractures are the less common type of triquetral fractures but they can be missed on plain radiographs and a non-union can be associated with considerable morbidity and reduction in functional activities. We report a unique case of displaced isolated triquetral body fracture that was initially missed on plain radi...

Osteopoikilosis (OPK) or osteopathia condensans disseminate or spotted bones is a benign osteosclerotic dysplasia of unknown origin. It is an inherited autosomal disorder. It is usually detected as a coincidental finding at radiographic examination. Both sexes are equally affected. The condition is usually asymptomatic. The most common localization of these lesions is in the phalanges of the ha...

One hundred and eleven patients with signs and symptoms of carpal scaphoid injury, but with no fracture visible on X-ray, underwent bone scintigraphy of the wrists. The first 42 patients were re-X-rayed 10 days after injury: bone scanning had identified all fractures confirmed on this X-ray; there were no false negative bone scans. Sixty-seven patients (60%) did not have increased focal uptake ...

Replantation is the reattachment of a severed body part, with attempts to restore neurovascular and musculoskeletal integrity, function, and aesthetics. On September 7, 1964, the first extremity replantation-a completely amputated hand-by vascular anastomosis technique was successfully performed.1 Soon after, the first replantation of a complete thumb amputation using microvascular anastomosis ...

Although one-eighth to one-tenth of all fractures of the wrist are carpal fractures, they may be overlooked, unless attention is directed particularly to them in diagnostic examination. Symptoms may be slight or lacking, but diagnosis is important because such injuries may give rise to pain or disability later. There are certain guides and procedures in physical and roentgenographic examination...

DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1008-1275.2011.01.001 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, F. Bourguiba University Hospital, 5000 Monastir, Tunisia (Hamdi MF) Corresponding author: Tel: 216-99-831-236 / 216-984 08 -3 86 , Fax: 21 6-73 -4 6 0-67 8, E m ai l: h am di. [email protected] 【Abstract】Volar perilunate fracture dislocation is an extremely rare carpal injury, but associated with metaca...

Since the first wrist implant in 1890 by Glück in the form of an ivory prosthesis, the evolution of the prosthetic wrist has been sawtoothing. Abandoned in the late nineteenth century due to infectious complications, they reappeared after the Second World War. Several concepts have rubbed shoulders for decades. It flourished simple and lightweight silicone implants Swanson and complex and heavy...

INTRODUCTION Scaphoid fractures are rare in childhood. Diagnosis is very difficult to establish because carpal bones are not fully ossified. In suspected cases comparative or delayed radiography is used, as well as computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound and bone scintigraphy. Majority of scaphoid fractures are treated conservatively with good results. In case of delayed...

A consecutive series of 100 cases of wrist injury, other than those referred with a radial fracture, have been reviewed to determine the incidence of acute scapholunate instability; a "clenched fist" radiograph was used in addition to the routine scaphoid views. Of 19 patients with an increase in the scapholunate gap, five were eventually considered to have significant scapholunate instability,...