title: Sixty-year follow-up in an untreated patient with Kienböck disease.
abstract: Kienböck disease can be treated either conservatively or by various operations. We describe the findings of the progression of Kienböck disease over 60 years in an 84-year-old man who had had no surgical treatment. This is the longest follow-up ever reported to our knowledge of a patient with avascular necrosis of the lunate.
authors.affiliation: Plastic and Hand Surgery, Scheper Hospital, Emmen, The Netherlands. meekmf@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Marcel F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Meek
authors.forename: Peter G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Lunn
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002349:Carpal Tunnel Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D019299:Decompression, Surgical / Q000379:methods; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D012667:Lunate Bone / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D010020:Osteonecrosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular / Q000502:physiology*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome