title: [A man with a painful wrist after a fall].
abstract: A 67-year-old man presented in the emergency department after a fall on his outstretched right hand. Physical examination showed tenderness of the anatomical snuffbox and the dorsal side of the wrist. X-rays of the wrist revealed a perilunate luxation combined with a scaphoid fracture.
authors.affiliation: VieCurie Medisch Centrum voor Noord-Limburg, afd. Chirurgie en Orthopedie, Venlo, the Netherlands. arthurbloemen@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Arthur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bloemen
authors.forename: Roy J P
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Weber
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls; D000368:Aged; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007593:Joint Instability / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D021361:Scaphoid Bone / Q000293:injuries*; D014955:Wrist Joint