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Bilateral Kienböck’s Disease

From the Department of Hand Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Correspondence: Dr. Naoya Yazaki, MD, Department of Hand Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, 65 Tsuruma-cho, Showa, Nagoya, Aichi 466-8550, Japan. Tel.:+81 52 744 2957; fax.:+81 52 744 2964. E-mail: n-yazaki{at}med.nagoya-u.ac.jp

We conducted a retrospective review of 11 patients with bilateral Kienböck’s disease from our series of 251 patients with Kienböck’s disease. There were no significant differences in radiographic parameters, including ulnar variance and carpal bone angle, between those with unilateral and those with bilateral Kienböck’s disease. None of the patients with bilateral disease had been treated with corticosteroids or had a systemic disease that predisposed to osteonecrosis. Thus, this study failed to demonstrate any risk factor for bilateral, as opposed to unilateral Kienböck’s disease.

Key Words: Kienböck’s disease • bilateral disorders • aseptic necrosis • lunate • wrist

Journal of Hand Surgery (British and European Volume), Vol. 30, No. 2, 133-136 (2005)
DOI: 10.1016/J.JHSB.2004.09.009


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