Os lunatum partitum: critical comment on the contribution of C.Hoffmann
Kaletsch, B.
Handchirurgie Mikrochirurgie Plastische Chirurgie Organ der Deutschsprachigen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Handchirurgie Organ der Deutschsprachigen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mikrochirurgie der Peripheren Nerven und Gefasse Organ der V. 16(2): 97-100
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0722-1819 PMID: 6745759 Document Number: 223150
This paper refers to the case published in "Handchirurgie" 14, 109-113 (1982). The author has conducted a critical analysis of the original records and of the literature. He concludes that the diagnosis is one of necrosis of the lunate (Kienböck's disease), not os lunatum partitum.