Carpal bone fractures
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Weerakkody Y, Bell D, Rasuli B, et al. Carpal bone fractures. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 21 Mar 2025) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-55663
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- Carpal bones fractures
- Carpal bone fracture
- Carpal fracture
- Fracture of carpal bones
- Carpal fractures
Carpal bone fractures comprise a range of different fractures which carry varying outcomes. They can involve one or a combination of carpal bones and also be part of fracture-dislocations.
Individual fractures (most to least common):
- scaphoid fracture: 50-80%
- triquetral fracture: ~18%
- trapezium fracture: ~3-5%
- lunate fracture: 3.9%
- capitate fracture: 1.9%
- hamate fracture: 1.7%
- pisiform fracture: 1.3%
- trapezoid fracture: 0.4%
Fracture dislocations include
- perilunate dislocation: considered most common 1
- perilunate fracture-dislocation
- transradial styloid perilunate fracture-dislocation
- transcapitate perilunate fracture-dislocation
- transtriquetral perilunate fracture-dislocation
- transulnar styloid perilunate fracture-dislocation
- lunate dislocation
See also
References
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- Lunate fracture
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