Unconstrained Pyrolytic Carbon (Pyrocarbon) Spacers in Wrist Surgery
INTRODUCTION ∗ I dedicate this chapter to all EWAS members (European Wrist Arthroscopy Society) who, for 3 years, without a let-up in their efforts, allowed the creation of one of…
External Fixation of Distal Radius Fractures
Videos corresponding to this chapter are available on DVD and online. INTRODUCTION ∗ This chapter has been adapted from one previously published in Slutsky DJ, Osterman AL: Fractures and Injuries…
Carpal Dislocations
Videos corresponding to this chapter are available on DVD and online. INTRODUCTION Carpal dislocations—recognized or unrecognized, acute or chronic—frequently result in long-term disability and pain. These injuries are rare and…
Lunotriquetral Ligament Instability/Tear: Acute and Chronic
INTRODUCTION The anatomy of the wrist is closely tied to carpal instability, which is broadly defined as the lack of adequate ligamentous and skeletal support to maintain a wrist stable…
Proximal Row Carpectomy
Videos corresponding to this chapter are available on DVD and online. INTRODUCTION The scapholunate advanced collapse (SLAC) wrist and the scaphoid nonunion advanced collapse (SNAC) wrist represent two of the…
Total Wrist Fusion
Videos corresponding to this chapter are available on DVD and online. RATIONALE FOR TOTAL WRIST FUSIOn Full (or total) wrist fusion (arthrodesis) sacrifices all flexion/extension and radial/ulnar deviation at the…
Dorsal Wrist Syndrome and Rotatory Subluxation of the Scaphoid
INTRODUCTION Dorsal perilunate synovitis was the term that we used in the late 1960s and early 1970s for patients presenting with wrist pain who had clinical findings consistent with a…
The Sauvé-Kapandji Procedure
Videos corresponding to this chapter are available on DVD and online. INTRODUCTION Arthrodesis is the most reliable and durable surgical procedure for the treatment of a joint disorder, with the…
Open Ulnar Shortening for Ulnocarpal Impaction
Videos corresponding to this chapter are available on DVD and online. RATIONALE AND BASIC SCIENCE PERTINENT TO THE PROCEDURE Milch is credited with the first surgical description in 1939 of…
Volar Wedge Grafting for Scaphoid Nonunions
Videos corresponding to this chapter are available on DVD and online. ANATOMY Scaphoid is Greek for canoe or boat, but in reality the scaphoid would be a bent and twisted…
