Scapholunate Instability: Current Concepts in Diagnosis and Management

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 998-1013

  Kuo, Christina E ^a   Wolfe, Scott W ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

Scapholunate advanced collapse; scapholunate dissociation; scapholunate instability

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTHRITIS; ARTHROCENTESIS; ARTHRODESIS; ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTHROPLASTY; BIOMECHANICS; BONE REMODELING; CARPAL BONE; CARTILAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GRIP STRENGTH; JOINT DEGENERATION; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT INSTABILITY; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; JOINT STABILITY; KINEMATICS; LIGAMENT; LIGAMENT INJURY; LUNATE BONE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCAPHOID BONE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWELLING; WRIST; WRIST INJURY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; CARPAL JOINTS; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; LUNATE BONE; SCAPHOID BONE;

EID: 47649090239     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2008.04.027     Document Type: Review

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