Results of modified capitate bone dislocation in lunate bone malacia

Leitz, G.

Handchirurgie Mikrochirurgie Plastische Chirurgie Organ der Deutschsprachigen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Handchirurgie Organ der Deutschsprachigen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mikrochirurgie der Peripheren Nerven und Gefasse Organ der V. 14(2): 106-108

1982


ISSN/ISBN: 0722-1819
PMID: 7182291
Document Number: 196831
Long-term follow-up after simple "elongating osteotomy" of the capitate in aseptic necrosis of the lunate has failed to produce the good results which would clearly make this procedure the treatment of choice. The surprisingly high subjective evaluation does not correlate well with the prognostically poor X-ray appearances.

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