INTRODUCTION Treatment of the rheumatoid wrist includes preventive, reconstructive, and salvage surgery. It is undertaken only after careful evaluation of the problems, deformity, and needs of the individual patient. In…
Videos corresponding to this chapter are available on DVD and online. INTRODUCTION Kienböck’s disease, or lunatomalacia, is an avascular osteonecrosis of the lunate that causes progressive collapse of the bone…
Videos corresponding to this chapter are available on DVD and online. DISTAL MEDIAN NEUROPATHY (CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME) Anatomy The carpal tunnel is open-ended proximally and distally, but it behaves like…
INTRODUCTION Perilunate dislocations (PLDs) and interosseous ligament tears are among the most common forms of carpal injuries. They are primarily an injury of the younger population and have many possible…
Videos corresponding to this chapter are available on DVD and online. INTRODUCTION A variety of distinct clinical entities characterize midcarpal instability (MCI). As yet, there is no universally accepted classification…
INTRODUCTION ∗ I dedicate this chapter to my deceased father, Arthur M. Simmons, MD, who was my role model as a physician and as a parent Pediatric wrist injuries were…
INTRODUCTION Although diagnostic arthroscopy of the wrist was first reported by Chen in 1979, it was not until 1986 that Roth and Poehling published a series of cases that served…
Videos corresponding to this chapter are available on DVD and online. INTRODUCTION AND RATIONALE FOR PROCEDURE ∗ I would like to dedicate this chapter to three men who greatly shaped…
Videos corresponding to this chapter are available on DVD and online. INTRODUCTION Wrist arthroscopy has grown steadily from a mostly diagnostic tool to a valuable adjunctive procedure in the treatment…
Videos corresponding to this chapter are available on DVD and online. RATIONALE FOR THE PROCEDURE Basal thumb arthritis may involve one or both of the trapeziometacarpal (TM) or scaphotrapeziotrapezoid (STT)…
