Proximal row carpectomy (PRC) is a well-accepted procedure for the treatment of degenerative lesions of the wrist and advance Kienböck disease. This procedure has been classically described as an open procedure but recently has been reported as an arthroscopic one. Arthroscopic PRC has several advantages such as minimal damage to the dorsal and volar ligaments as well as there being no need to ...

Radiólogo austriaco, sus principales estudios fueron en la radiología aplicada a las enfermedades del esqueleto, así como sus aplicaciones terapéuticas. Kienböck (Figura 1) era hijo de un abogado que nació en Enero 11 de 1871 en Viena, Austria donde realizó todos sus estudios en la Universidad y obtuvo su título en medicina en 1895, un año después viajó a Londres y luego a París donde trabajó c...

Excision of the proximal carpal row has proven over the past 60 years to be an effective technique for certain disorders of the wrist, including degenerative sequelae of scapholunate ligament dissociation and scaphoid nonunions, Kienböck disease, Preisser disease, and other fracture-dislocations of the wrist. The durability of this procedure may be due to remodeling of the capitate head to the ...