Palmar dislocation of the lunate bone with complete disruption of all ligaments
A report on two cases
Published online: Oct 27 2003
Lieneke J. DRAAIJERS, Mick KREULEN
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, Mario MAAS
From the Red Cross Hospital, Beverwijk and the Academic
Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract
Complete disruption of the lunate from both dorsal
and palmar ligamentous attachments caused by
palmar dislocation has rarely been reported. The
authors present two cases and discuss the surgical
treatments performed. They conclude from these
cases that the lunate is at risk for remaining avascu-lar
after such trauma, so that proximal row carpec-tomy
should be considered as a surgical option in the
primary treatment.