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Distal radius and wrist trauma
Authors: Athanaselis, Efstratios
Varitimidis, Sokrates
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Fractures of the distal radius are among the most common orthopaedic injuries. The choice of treatment method is based on the characteristics of the fracture and the functional requirements of the patient. However, for patients under 65 years of age, operative treatment with volar locking plates tends to be the treatment of choice. Distal radius fractures are the most common pediatric orthopaedic injury. .As it occurs with all fractures in skeletally immature patients, thick periosteum produces special fracture types and growing plate injuries can affect bone growth. On the other hand, bone healing is fast and there is a significant ability of correcting malunion deformities by remodelling. Injuries of the distal radioulnar joint (DRUJ) and the triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) either isolated (e.g. sport injuries in athletes) or associated with distal forearm fractures, can cause ulnar sided wrist pain. These injuries are more likely to happen when distal ulna and ulna styloid fractures coexist, in Essex-Lopresti injuries as well as Galeazzi fractures-dislocations, . Failure in diagnosis of such injuries is not rare and results in wrist functional deficit and discomfort. Scaphoid fractures are the most common fractures of carpal bones. Depending on the morphology of the fracture, there is relatively high risk of non-union and aseptic necrosis of the scaphoid due to restricted arterial perfusion. Fractures of the rest carpal bones are not very common and they can be easily misdiagnosed. They often happen as a part of more complex injuries (fractures and dislocations) of the wrist. Ligamentous injuries and dislocations of the wrist involve a wide range of lesions that can be localized between two carpal bones or can be more complex . They are often the result of a significant force caused from a fall, traffic accident or sports injury. Apart from simple sprains, the disorder in the anatomy and relevant motion due to ligament rupture, can cause functional impairment and leads in post-traumatic arthritis of the wrist in the long-term. Therefore, in the main syndesmotic carpal injuries should be diagnosed promptly and treated operatively.
Linguistic Editors: Pitsoli, Kalliopi
Graphic Editors: Tsakmaki, Eleni
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 18-05-2023
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License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/9483
Bibliographic Reference: Athanaselis, E., & Varitimidis, S. (2023). Distal radius and wrist trauma [Chapter]. In Dailiana, Z., Varitimidis, S., Karachalios, T., Malizos, K., & Hantes, M. 2023. Traumatology of Upper Extremity [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/9483
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Traumatology of Upper Extremity
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions