TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - Proximal row transcarpal fracture from a punching injury
JO  - Journal of hand surgery (British volume)
A1  - Christodoulou, L.
A1  - Palou, C. H.
A1  - Chamberlain, S. T.
SP  - 744
EP  - 746
VL  - 24
IS  - 6
N2  - 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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0266-7681
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/jhsb.1999.0221
ID  - ref1
ER  -