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I was diagnosed with stage 4 Kienbock's Disease in the very early 1990s. Prior to that, I had 2 separate falls on oustretched hand (FOOSH). Since that time, I have suffered a fall that resulted in the shattered radius shown below. The lunate has dislocated dorsally and has apparently revascularized. These films do not show the classic signs of Kienbock's Disease.
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Below left, an xray of my left wrist, stage 4, taken 2/99, six weeks after shattering my distal radius and having 4 pins surgically inserted. Neither the radial fracture nor the pins are related to the Kienbock's Disease. For comparison, below right is a labeled version of a normal left wrist with the pisiform circled (for reasons unrelated to Kienbock's Disease or my own x-ray).
Shannon's X-ray February, 1999 | |
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Shannon's X-ray February 2002These films show the lunate as plump and vascularized but dislocated dorsally. The lunate's curved side should sit in the cup of the end of the radius. | |
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Shannon's X-rays, apples to applesSomething that's no longer Kienbock's Disease... | |
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