Citation

Christodoulou L, Palou CH, Chamberlain ST. J. Hand Surg. Br. 1999; 24(6): 744-746.

Affiliation

Pulvertaft Hand Centre, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, British Society for Surgery of the Hand, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1054/jhsb.1999.0221

PMID

10672818

Abstract

We describe an unusual case of a 31-year-old woman who injured the right dominant wrist when she punched an assailant's shoulder. She described a mechanism of direct compression, with the wrist in hyperextension, radial deviation and the forearm in pronation. She sustained an oblique transverse fracture of the proximal pole of the scaphoid and a coronal plane fracture of the lunate and the triquetrum. This unusual proximal row transcarpal fracture is in conflict with the Mayfield sequence and was caused by a low velocity injury.

Language: en