Impaction-fracture of the capitate and lunate: a case report
Ong, Joshua Chong Yew Devitt, Brian Meldan O'Sullivan, Micheal Edmund
Ong, Joshua Chong Yew
Devitt, Brian Meldan
O'Sullivan, Micheal Edmund
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2012-08-01
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Ong, Joshua Chong Yew; Devitt, Brian Meldan; O'Sullivan, Micheal Edmund (2012). Impaction-fracture of the capitate and lunate: a case report. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery 20 (2), 243-245
Abstract
We report a 15-year-old girl who underwent a midcarpal 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-lunatetriquetral articulations.
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SAGE Publications
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10.1177/230949901202000222
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