Volar dislocation of the thumb metacarpophalangeal joint with acute repair of the ulnar collateral ligament

Volar dislocations of the thumb metacarpophalangeal joint are uncommon and can be associated with rupture of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL). We report a case where a volar thumb dislocation was successfully closed reduced, but instability required open repair of the UCL. Early motion protocol h...

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Autores principales: Potini, Vishnu C., Sood, Amit, Sood, Aditya, Mastromonaco, Edward
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Informa Healthcare 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4627101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27252947
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/23320885.2014.965254
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author Potini, Vishnu C.
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description Volar dislocations of the thumb metacarpophalangeal joint are uncommon and can be associated with rupture of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL). We report a case where a volar thumb dislocation was successfully closed reduced, but instability required open repair of the UCL. Early motion protocol helped achieve favorable results.
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spelling pubmed-46271012016-06-01 Volar dislocation of the thumb metacarpophalangeal joint with acute repair of the ulnar collateral ligament Potini, Vishnu C. Sood, Amit Sood, Aditya Mastromonaco, Edward Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg Case Report Volar dislocations of the thumb metacarpophalangeal joint are uncommon and can be associated with rupture of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL). We report a case where a volar thumb dislocation was successfully closed reduced, but instability required open repair of the UCL. Early motion protocol helped achieve favorable results. Informa Healthcare 2014-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4627101/ /pubmed/27252947 http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/23320885.2014.965254 Text en © 2014 The Author(s). Published by Informa Healthcare. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Volar dislocation of the thumb metacarpophalangeal joint with acute repair of the ulnar collateral ligament
title Volar dislocation of the thumb metacarpophalangeal joint with acute repair of the ulnar collateral ligament
title_full Volar dislocation of the thumb metacarpophalangeal joint with acute repair of the ulnar collateral ligament
title_fullStr Volar dislocation of the thumb metacarpophalangeal joint with acute repair of the ulnar collateral ligament
title_full_unstemmed Volar dislocation of the thumb metacarpophalangeal joint with acute repair of the ulnar collateral ligament
title_short Volar dislocation of the thumb metacarpophalangeal joint with acute repair of the ulnar collateral ligament
title_sort volar dislocation of the thumb metacarpophalangeal joint with acute repair of the ulnar collateral ligament
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4627101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27252947
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/23320885.2014.965254
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