title: [Progress in treatment of Kienböck's disease].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review the progress in the clinical treatment of Kienböck's disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  Related literature concerning the treatment of Kienböck's disease was reviewed, and comprehensive analysis was done.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The treatment methods of Kienböck's disease include non-surgical treatment and surgical treatment, which are primarily guided by the anatomic factor and Lichtman stage. Non-surgical treatment methods should be selected in patients of children and at stage I. Surgical treatment methods include vascularized bone graft transfer into the cored-out lunate, radial shortening osteotomy, radial lateral wedge osteotomy, etc. All surgical treatment methods have advantages and disadvantages.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  For the treatment of Kienböck's disease, none of procedure is superior to another. In short, choosing different treatment strategies based on different patients can achieve the desired outcome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu Sichuan, 610041, P.R.China.
authors.forename: Cong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Fuguo
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012667:Lunate Bone; D010020:Osteonecrosis / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy*