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Oblique shear fractures of the lunate
Alan E Freeland1, Nawaiz Ahmad
1Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Miss 39216, USA.
Orthopedics
|August 27, 2003
Abstract:
Traumatic fractures of the lunate are rare. This article presents two patients who had displaced oblique lunate fractures and distal radius fractures. Both fractures achieved union; however, transient avascular necrosis occurred in the proximal healing of one patient.