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 […]