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 […]
Triangular fibrocartilage rupture and ulnar styloid fracture: dry arthroscopy surgery
The patient, 19, presents instability in the left wrist and pain at its ulnar edge. The symptoms, which limit its functionality, appear after a second injury (he had suffered a previous wrist fracture in childhood) and have their origin in a pseudoarthrosis of the ulnar styloid and the rupture of the insertion of the triangular […]
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 […]