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Kienbock's Disease in a Child [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2011
Kienbock's disease, which is an idiopathic osteonecrosis and collapse of the lunate bone, is an uncommon disease in children. This report describes a case of an 11-year-old girl, who presented with avascular necrosis of lunate bone confirmed by ...
Masoud Shayesteh Azar,   +3 more
doaj  

Scintigraphic evaluation of Kienbock’s disease in comparison to Plain radiography

open access: yesInternational Journal of Endorsing Health Science Research, 2013
Kienbock’s disease is a rare pathology of uncertain etiology, resulting in osteonecrosis of lunate bone. The authors present interesting images for comparison of both plain radiography and bone scan findings done in a young male laborer.
Zaheer Chiragh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Automatic generation of statistical pose and shape models for articulated joints [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Statistical analysis of motion patterns of body joints is potentially useful for detecting and quantifying pathologies. However, building a statistical motion model across different subjects remains a challenging task, especially for a complex joint like
Chen, Xin   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Impaction-Fracture of the Capitate and Lunate: A Case Report

open access: yesJournal of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2012
We report a 15-year-old girl who underwent a mid-carpal fusion for undiagnosed impaction-fractures of the capitate, lunate, and triquetrum after a fall on her outstretched left hand in a dorsiflexed and radially deviated position.
Joshua Chong Yew Ong   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Closed extensor tendon rupture caused by Kienböck disease: a case report

open access: yesArchives of Plastic Surgery, 2022
Kienböck disease, a rare disease that can cause chronic pain and motor dysfunction, occurs due to avascular necrosis of the lunate bone, which leads to dislocation of the carpal bone.
Jong Yun Choi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Accuracy and repeatability of wrist joint angles in boxing using an electromagnetic tracking system [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
© 2019, The Author(s). The hand-wrist region is reported as the most common injury site in boxing. Boxers are at risk due to the amount of wrist motions when impacting training equipment or their opponents, yet we know relatively little about these ...
A de Lange   +51 more
core   +2 more sources

Australopithecus afarensis endocasts suggest ape-like brain organization and prolonged brain growth

open access: yes, 2020
Human brains are three times larger, are organized differently, and mature for a longer period of time than those of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees. Together, these characteristics are important for human cognition and social behavior, but
Alemseged, Z.   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Direct “Cystoscopic” Approach for Arthroscopic Decompression of an Intraosseous Ganglion of the Lunate

open access: yesArthroscopy Techniques, 2015
Intraosseous ganglion cysts (IOGs) are uncommon lesions of the carpal bones and can present with persistent pain and stiffness of the wrist. Surgical decompression is recommended, and a variety of approaches to decompress symptomatic IOGs of the wrist ...
Deepak N. Bhatia, M.S.(Orth), D.N.B.(Orth)
doaj   +1 more source

The Primate Wrist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This book demonstrates how the primate hand combines both primitive and novel morphology, both general function with specialization, and both a remarkable degree of diversity within some clades and yet general similarity across many others.
Kivell, Tracy L.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Three-Dimensional Morphometric Analysis of the Volar Cortical Shape of the Lunate Facet of the Distal Radius

open access: yesDiagnostics
In cases of distal radius fractures, the fixation of the volar lunate facet fragment is crucial for preventing volar subluxation of the carpal bones. This study aims to clarify the sex differences in the volar morphology of the lunate facet of the distal
Yusuke Eda   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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