Article Text
Reminder of important clinical lesson
CASE REPORT
A rare case of an acute lunate dislocation in a child
Summary
Acute lunate dislocations are unusual and devastating injuries to the wrist. They are very rare in adult wrist injuries but extremely rare in children. Only six cases of perilunate dislocations in children have been reported in the literature, and in addition to this, only a single case of a lunate dislocation in a child has been reported.
Here, we report a case of a 10-year-old boy who presented with an acute lunate dislocation of the wrist, following trauma, a second of its kind.
- orthopaedics
- paediatrics
- orthopaedic and trauma surgery
- paediatric surgery
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Contributors Contributions to the manuscript have been made from SAK, MVV and AP.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent Obtained.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.