background: to evaluate the intermediate-term outcomes of radius shortening as a treatment for kienbock’s disease. materials and methods: in a historical cohort, 16 skeletally mature patients (9 men and 7 women) with kienbock disease, who were treated with radial shortening osteotomy between 2002 and 2012, were reviewed in our study. the mean age of our patients was 30 (range 18-43) years old. ...

The aim of this study was to compare two surgery methods including radial shortening and radial shortening combined with vascularized bone graft for treatment of stage II or IIIa of Kienböck's disease. It is a randomized, controlled clinical trial, which was carried out in 2011-2013. Twenty-four patients were assigned equally to radial shortening group (A) or radial shortening combined with vas...

Background:  There is no consensus on the best surgical treatment in Kienböck disease. We compared the shortterm outcomes of radial shortening osteotomy and capitate shortening osteotomy in patients affected with this disease.  Methods:  In a retrospective study of 21 patients with Lichtman stage IIIA of Kienböck disease, 12 patients with an average follow up of 3.2 ± 0.6 years had radial short...

results overall, ≥ 2 mm shortening of the radius was seen in 28% of the patients, 53% had 2 - 5 mm radial shortening and 19% of the patients had more than 5 mm shortening of the radius. most of the participants had acceptable outcomes. the mean angulation was 6.28 ± 2.85 degrees and the mean shortening was 3.92 ± 2.22. thirty-nine percent of the patients had an angulation of less than 5 mm, 56%...

Repeated trauma to the radial head may be one of the causative factors in the genesis of osteochondritis dissecans of the capitellum. We measured the force, contact area and pressure across the radiocapitellar articulation of the elbow before and after radial shortening osteotomy in five fresh-frozen cadaver upper limbs with loads of 45, 90 and 135 N, respectively. Measurements were made on pre...

PURPOSE We hypothesized that radial shortening osteotomy (radial shortening) for skeletally immature patients with Kienböck's disease would induce overgrowth of the radius. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of radial shortening on radial growth in skeletally immature patients with Kienböck's disease and to clarify the relationship between the postoperative growth alterations...

BACKGROUND Congenital dislocation of the radial head of the elbow is rare. It is genetically transmitted in some cases and is often associated with syndromes, such as Nail-Patella syndrome, antecubital pterygium and ulnar dysplasia. About two thirds are posterior, with the remainder being either anterior (15%) or lateral (15%). The natural history of the condition is that symptoms are relativel...

background: fractures of distal radius are one of the most common fractures seen by physicians and account for 20% of all fractures seen in the emergency room. various factors contribute in secondary displacement of fracture fragments after anatomic or near anatomic close reduction and cast immobilization in distal radius fractures. this study was designed to examine the correlation between rad...

Assessment of the grade of deformity after fracture of the distal end of the radius demands and accurate method of determination of radial shortening. Radiographs of 50 patients with malunited Colles' fractures were analyzed in order to find the method which is least affected by changes in ulnar and palmar tilt. Two new landmarks, the centre-point in the distal articular surface of the radius a...