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 […]
Triangular fibrocartilage injury: surgery on posterior tear
The triangular fibrocartilage is in the ulnar side of the wrist and is a major cause of pain in the area. This diagnostic label can include up to 60 different pathologies in just one square centimeter of body surface (1). A tear in the fibrocartilage, which may appear in many forms, is one of the most […]