title: Kienböck's disease in cerebral palsy.
abstract: Five cases of Kienböck's disease occurring in a group of fifty-three adults with cerebral palsy are described. The increased incidence of the disease is attributed to the flexed posture habitual in the affected wrist and to an effect on the pattern of blood supply to the lunate.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012667:Lunate Bone / Q000098:blood supply; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010007:Osteochondritis / Q000209:etiology*; D011187:Posture; D014955:Wrist Joint / Q000503:physiopathology