Radius fracture in childhood: rescue surgery and removal of ulnar pain in adult age
The patient, a nurse by profession, suffered a radius fracture in childhood that slowed the normal growth of this bone. This shorter radius length leads to an ulna plus situation, in which the head of the ulna is well above the radial border and impacts extensively (impaction syndrome) with the ulnar carpal area. This bone […]
Salvage surgery in case of dorsal subluxation of the ulna
The patient starts from an ulna plus picture (that is, the ulna is longer than the radius at its distal ends) with ulnar pain, due to impaction of the ulnar head against the lunate bone of the right wrist. Before going to Dr Piñal, she had undergone an incorrectly executed arthroscopic Wafer procedure, in which […]
Impaction syndrome: removal of ulnar pain by arthroscopic resection
The patient, 43, suffers from a combined ulnar impaction syndrome in his right wrist caused by the excess length of the ulna and ulnar styloid, which collide with the carpal area. More specifically, the head of the ulna surpasses the edge of the radius and impacts against the lunate bone and the styloid, bigger than […]
What’s behind ulnar pain?: triangular fibrocartilage and other pathologies
The wrist is one of the most anatomically complex parts of the human skeleton. Its location acts as a link between the forearm and the hand, with the confluence of the epiphyses or distal ends of the radius and ulna and the eight bones that make up the carpus. In this area, the ulna acts […]