Multiple carpal bone fractures in an eleven-year-old.
The successful treatment of a very rare case of multiple carpal bone fractures in a child is described. Fractures of the scaphoid, the capitate, and the hamate were treated with wire fixation, leading to good clinical results twenty-nine months after surgery.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Baba Memorial Hospital, Sakai City, Osaka, Japan.
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Kamano
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Fukushima
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Honda
D000058:Accidental Falls; D001864:Bone Wires; D002348:Carpal Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D017102:Fracture Healing / Q000502:physiology; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D008297:Male; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D011859:Radiography; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014955:Wrist Joint / Q000503:physiopathology