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CASE REPORT

Treatment of progressive necrosis of the lunate bone (Kienböck disease) after unsuccessful radial osteotomy

, PhD , MD, , , &
Pages 267-271 | Published online: 08 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

We report the treatment of three patients with stage 3 Kienböck disease that had advanced after radial shortening (n=2) or lateral wedge osteotomy (n=1). We shortened the capitate and fused the capitate and hamate, and applied a vascularised bone graft taken from the distal dorsal radius to the lunate. This was successful in all three patients.

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