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[The painful wrist joint: alloplastic joint replacement]
Zeitschrift Fur Unfallchirurgie Und Versicherungsmedizin : Offizielles Organ Der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft Fur Unfallmedizin Und Berufskrankheiten = Revue De Traumatologie Et D'Assicurologie : Organe Officiel De La Societe Suisse De
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
The analysis of the etiology of the painful wrist demonstrates quite clearly an increasing number of "carpal collapse" as a sequence of trauma (perilunar dislocation), of congenital disorders and rheumatoid arthritis. The deterioration of the wrist joint may start locally but may end up with generalised deforming osteo-arthritis. In addition to traditional salvage operations (partial/total fusion, carpectomy) the total wrist prosthesis by Meuli (ball and socket joint) has its definite place in the treatment of the painful destruction and instability of the wrist.