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Case Reports
. 2017 Oct 4:2017:bcr2017222180.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2017-222180.

A rare case of an acute lunate dislocation in a child

Shehzaad Aziz Khan  1   2 , Menanta Van Velze  2 , Andrew Pearse  2
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Case Reports

A rare case of an acute lunate dislocation in a child

Shehzaad Aziz Khan et al. BMJ Case Rep. .

Abstract

Acute lunate dislocations are unusual and devastating injuries to the wrist. They are very rare in adult wrist injuries but extremely rare in children. Only six cases of perilunate dislocations in children have been reported in the literature, and in addition to this, only a single case of a lunate dislocation in a child has been reported.Here, we report a case of a 10-year-old boy who presented with an acute lunate dislocation of the wrist, following trauma, a second of its kind.

Keywords: orthopaedic and trauma surgery; orthopaedics; paediatric surgery; paediatrics.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
A lateral radiograph showing volar displacement and 60° volar angulation of the lunate and a Salter Harris III fracture.
Figure 2
Figure 2
An antero-posterior radiograph showing no obvious abnormality except for a disruption of the smooth line running across the proximal carpal row.
Figure 3
Figure 3
A lateral intraoperative radiograph, using the image intensifier, shows the successfully reduced lunate with two 1.6 mm Kirschner wires.
Figure 4
Figure 4
An antero-posterior intraoperative radiograph, using the image intensifier, shows the successfully reduced lunate with two 1.6 mm Kirschner wires.
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