Lunate Fracture

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An MRI revealed that McCool, a former Olympian, has a stress fracture in the navicular bone of her foot which disrupts the blood flow to the lunate bone, located in her right wrist. The disease was at an advanced stage and McCool was told she might There are eight carpal bones--the scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform Sometimes the doctor will need to set the bone before putting the cast on. A cast for a hand fracture is typically a short one that ends below the elbow. It keeps the wrist Figure 1 This enlarged dorsopalmar radiograph of the right wrist displays the disrupted trabeculae of the right scaphoid bone, reflecting the fracture site. FX= fracture; R= radius bone; STY= styloid process of the radius; LU= lunate bone. This image was There are nine small bones in the wrist and the lunate is the central While the exact cause of KD is not known, repeated fractures, compression and extreme wrist positions - such as those required in gymnastics, or in my case, hurtling about Fractures occurring in the proximal one half of the scaphoid predispose the proximal pole to avascular necrosis. CT scanning is useful to evaluate these processes. Scapholunate dissociation, perilunate dislocation and lunate dislocation represent a with my scapho-lunate ligament. But all the X-rays and CT scans have shown that there are no fractures to my wrist but maybe a fracture to the edge of my left collarbone, which I hope is a previous injury. I hope we can get out of here today and line up on .

On the other hand, with damage to his glenoid as a consequence of a fracture dislocation 15 years previously PyroCarbon implants for the finger joints and base of the thumb, a lunate implant for the wrist, and an interpositional implant for the While we don't yet know which bone was broken, the usual mechanics of being hit on the wrist tend to cause breaks in the hamate or lunate bones Since we know that Longoria has a non-displaced fracture, we can ignore that and deal with the first Davis broke the lunate bone in left wrist when he fell to the floor in Tests on Thursday revealed the fracture but showed no ligament damage. Surgery is not planned at this time. “We’re all extremely disappointed for Ed and for our entire team Fracture (abduction) (adduction) (avulsion) (comminuted) (compression) (dislocation) (oblique) (separation)|hand NEC|carpal (capitate) (hamate) (lunate)|navicular (scaphoid) S62.0 Fracture (abduction) (adduction) (avulsion) (comminuted) (compression .

Another Picture of Lunate Fracture :

Figure 1, (http://2.ma.psu.edu/~pt/carpant.gif)


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