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A Not-So-Old Football Injury

Clinician Reviews. 2015 April;25(4):32,38
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Imaging shows a ventral dislocation of the lunate. There is also a tiny avulsion fracture on the ulnar aspect of the adjacent triquetrum.

The patient was referred to orthopedics for a perilunate dislocation of the left wrist. He underwent successful closed reduction and was placed in a short arm cast for four weeks.