Where Is the Perilunate Dislocation

Perilunate dislocations are rare injuries comprising of less than 10% of all wrist injuries. These usually occur after high-energy trauma to the wrist.

What is a Perilunate fracture dislocation?

Perilunate dislocations and perilunate fracture-dislocations are potentially devastating closed wrist injuries that are often missed on initial imaging. These injuries involve dislocation of the carpus relative to the lunate which remains in normal alignment with the distal radius.

How do you fix a Perilunate dislocation?

The treatment choices for perilunate and lunate dislocations are closed reduction and casting, open reduction-internal fixation-ligament repair, trapeziolunate external fixation, limited wrist arthrodesis and proximal row carpectomy.