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Kienbock's Disease in a Child [PDF]
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
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Scintigraphic evaluation of Kienbock’s disease in comparison to Plain radiography
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
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Automatic generation of statistical pose and shape models for articulated joints [PDF]
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
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Impaction-Fracture of the Capitate and Lunate: A Case Report
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
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Closed extensor tendon rupture caused by Kienböck disease: a case report
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
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Accuracy and repeatability of wrist joint angles in boxing using an electromagnetic tracking system [PDF]
© 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
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Australopithecus afarensis endocasts suggest ape-like brain organization and prolonged brain growth
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
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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)
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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
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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
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