title: Salvage Operations for Wrist Ligament Injuries with Secondary Arthrosis.
abstract: Wrist ligamentous injuries can be challenging to treat successfully. In some cases the ligament repair or reconstruction fails, resulting in instability and progressive degenerative changes. In other cases the original injury is missed, and the patient presents for the first time with established wrist arthritis. Multiple operations have been devised to treat patients with arthrosis secondary to wrist ligament injuries. This article discusses definitive salvage operations such as intercarpal arthrodeses and proximal row carpectomy, as well as other alternatives such as wrist denervation and radial styloidectomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 1801 Inwood Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
authors.forename: Oded
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ben Amotz
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 1801 Inwood Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA. Electronic address: douglas.sammer@utsouthwestern.edu.
authors.forename: Douglas M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Sammer
mesh_terms: D001174:Arthrodesis; D003714:Denervation; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D007593:Joint Instability / Q000601:surgery*; D008023:Ligaments, Articular / Q000601:surgery*; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000601:surgery*; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods; D016879:Salvage Therapy; D014954:Wrist Injuries / Q000601:surgery*
keywords: Denervation; Four-corner arthrodesis; Lunotriquetral; Proximal row carpectomy; SLAC wrist; Scaphoidectomy; Scapholunate