Abstract

CRUZ SARMIENTO, EMILIO ROBERTO; TAM GONZALEZ, ROGELIO; MARRERO RIVERON, LUIS OSCAR  and  MIRANDA LOURO, TANIUSHKA A.. Diagnosis and treatment of the postraumatic carpal instability syndrome. Rev Cubana Ortop Traumatol [online]. 1997, vol.11, n.1-2, pp. 15-24. ISSN 1561-3100.

A prospective study of the patients that were attended at the Urgency Department of the "Vladimir Ilich Lenin" Clinical and Surgical Teaching Hospital with wrist traumatic injuries from January 1993, to December 1995, was conducted; 48 patients had carpal instability as a complication. This instability was more frequent in women and after a Colles' fracture; 35.41 % needed surgical treatment. The diagnosis and treatment are discussed.

Keywords : WRIST INJURIES [complications]; JOINT INSTABILITY [etiology]; JOINT INSTABILITY [diagnosis]; JOINT INSTABILITY [therapy]; CARPAL BONES [pathology]; WRIST JOINT.