title: [Technique for shortening the radius].
abstract: In the idiopathic necrosis if the lunate, one of the most often used technics is the shortening of the radius. We describe here a method which allows a firm fixation by a concave plate, with an automatic compression due to the conicity of the screw-heads. The fitting is also automatically done by the means of two ancillary gauges: with the first one, the six screw-holes may be drilled at once in the right place: with the second one, the radius is tightly hold as the oblique resection is made up. Screwing the plate in a correct order, the shortening of the radius, the compression of the bony surfaces and the rigid osteosynthesis may be obtained in the same time.
authors.affiliation: Clinique de l'Yvette, Longjumeau.
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Kapandji
mesh_terms: D001858:Bone Nails; D001860:Bone Plates; D006801:Humans; D012667:Lunate Bone; D010007:Osteochondritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D010020:Osteonecrosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D011859:Radiography; D011884:Radius / Q000601:surgery*