Background The palmar aspect of the capsuloligamentous complex of the wrist is relatively inaccessible to surgery through an open approach. An all-inside arthroscopic suturing technique is presented that allows suturing of the palmar scapholunate or lunotriquetral ligaments or plication of the space of Poirier. Methods Eight palmar scapholunate ligaments and four major tears of the volar capsul...

dislocations are common wrist injuries. Perilunate injuries, as described by Mayfield,1 are most common and perhaps best understood. Disruption of the carpal ligaments or fractures of the carpal bones can occur in almost any combination. The injury occurs as a result of extreme hyperextension, ulnar deviation, and internal carpal supination. As the deforming force increases, the ligaments and b...

A 16 year old, right hand dominant worker sustained a severe injury after his shirt had been caught by a kind of a roller. On evaluation, he had complaints of numbness and paresthesias in the hand with diffuse tenderness, swelling and deformities of the wrist, forearm and the arm. Circulation seemed to be impaired, but radial and ulnar pulses could be palpated, although with difficulty because ...