Volar Dislocation of the Lunate Causing Multiple Flexor Tendon Ruptures

1 April 1994

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume)

Vol. 19 (2) , 195-196
https://doi.org/10.1016/0266-7681(94)90163-5

Abstract

A case of volar dislocation of the lunate, associated with multiple rupture of the flexor tendons of the fingers, is described in a 76-year-old man with calcium pyrophosphate arthropathy.

Keywords

LUNATE CAUSING
DISLOCATION
ARTHROPATHY
PYROPHOSPHATE
FINGERS
MAN
OLD
VOLAR
CAUSING MULTIPLE

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