Keinbocks Disease

Information and facts about Eponymous diseases.

Keinbock's Disease is a disorder of the wrist . It is named for Dr. Robert Kienbock, a radiologist in Vienna who discovered it in 1910.

It is breakdown of the lunate bone, one of the bones in the most proximal carpal row.

Lunatomalacia due to repetitive microtrauma, sometimes associated with ulna minus variant.

Classification Scheme

Normal radiograph (possible lunate fracture).
Sclerosis of the lunate without collapse.
Lunate collapse, fragmentation.
changes up to and including fragmentation, with superimposed arthritic changes.

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