ligamentous

Perilunate dislocations

Epidemiology

 

Young men in 20's and 30's

 

Aetiology

 

High energy injuries

- fall from heights

- MVA

 

Mayfield Classification

 

Injury progresses from radial to ulna

- usually disruption proximal row either side of lunate

 

1.  Capitate usually displaces dorsally initially

- volar lunate dislocation is end stage