Abstract

• Authors reviewed 3 cases of carpal bone fracture-dislocation treated with samll-external fixator and internal fixation such as K-wires or screws from October 1991 to March 1993 with above 1 year follow up.
  The results were as follows;
  1. Mean ages were 25 years, all patients were male.
  2. The causes of injury were the fall down in 2 cases and the sports injury in 1 case.
  3. Cases were a palmar transscaphoid lunate dislocation, a Neglected volar dislocation of lunate, and a doral transscaphoid perilunar dislocation.
  4. Advantages are as follows
  1) minimize surgical dissection
  2) maintenance of reduction is easy
  3) ROM: full
  4) painless
  5) results are excellent
  We would like to recomment to use the small-external fixator and limited internal fixation instead of other methods for the treatment of carpal bone fracture-dislocation.
• Key words: Carpal bone fracture-dislocation, Small-extrenal fixation, Internal fixation

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