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Kienböck's disease in a 14-year-old gymnast: a case report
Guillaume Herzberg1, Sylvie Mercier, Jean Pierre Charbonnier
1Orthopaedic Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery Unit and Radiology Department, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France. guillaume.herzberg@chu-lyon.fr
The Journal of Hand Surgery
|February 14, 2006
Abstract:
Kienböck's disease is rare in children and there are few reports and therapeutic recommendations in the literature about this condition. We report a case of a 14-year-old female gymnast for whom nonsurgical treatment was followed by complete healing within 12 months. Repeated computed tomography scans provided a sequential coronal, sagittal, and transverse illustration of the progressive healing of the lunate.