Navigation may be reliable and clinically useful for dynamic monitoring of coronal leg alignment but has limits in determination of sagittal and axial plane alignment.
PURPOSE-The use of joint leveling procedures to treat Kienbock's disease has been limited by the degree of disease advancement. This study was designed to compare clinical and radiographic outcomes of wrists with more advanced Kienbock's disease (stage IIIB) to wrists with less advanced disease (stage II/IIIA) following radius shortening osteotomy. CONCLUSIONS-In this limited series, clinical outcomes of radius shortening using validated, patient-based assessment instruments and objective measures failed to demonstrate predicted "clinically relevant" differences between stage II/IIIA and IIIB Kienbock's. Provided the high percentage successful clinical outcomes in this case series of 14 stage IIIB wrists, we believe that static carpal malalignment does not preclude radius shortening osteotomy.
METHODS-This
Level of Evidence-IV; retrospective case series
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