Neglected Isolated Lunate Fracture

Chang-Hun Lee; Chan-Il Bae; Sung Bae Park; Hyun-Soo Park

doi:10.12790/jkssh.2014.19.1.52

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Lee, Bae, Park, and Park: Neglected Isolated Lunate Fracture

CASE REPORT

J Korean Soc Surg Hand 2014;19(1):52-56.

Published online: 11 March 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12790/jkssh.2014.19.1.52

Neglected Isolated Lunate Fracture

Chang-Hun Lee¹, Chan-Il Bae², Sung Bae Park², Hyun-Soo Park^2,

¹Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Eulji Medical Center, Eulji University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

²Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, KEPCO Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Correspondence to: Hyun-Soo Park, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, KEPCO, Medical Center, 308 Uicheon-ro, Dobong-gu, Seoul 132-703, Korea, TEL: +82-2-901-3078, FAX: +82-2-900-1745, E-mail: deanzang2@hanmail.net

Received 1 November 201311 March 2014 Accepted 24 March 2014

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Isolate fracture of lunate is very rare. The authors reported a neglected fracture of lunate which was founded incidentally after the dorsal wall fracture of triquetrum. Pain reduction and improvement of range of motion was achieved after excising the dorsal fragment of lunate.

Keywords: Isolated lunate fracture

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Fig. 1.

Radiographs showed collapse and fragmentation of lunate and fracture of triquetrum.

Fig. 2.

Computed tomography of right wrist showed evidence of callus formation between volar and dorsal lunate fragments without smooth and well corticated margin.

Fig. 3.

(A) T1 and (B) T2 weighted images showed no signal change in the lunate.

Fig. 4.

At 1 year follow-up, there was no deterioration in radiograph.

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