Incidence of Carpal Boss and Osseous Coalition: An Anatomic Study

Diagnosis and Treatment of Symptomatic Carpal Bossing

“…The prevalence of carpal boss is high, reported with up to 19% in cadaver studies [3]. Nevertheless most of the carpal bosses do not cause any symptoms.…”

Carpal Coalition: Symptomatic Incomplete Bony Coalition of the Capitate and Trapezoid—Case Report

“…4 -7 In contrast, Alemohammad et al found a prevalence of ICTC of 2% in a cadaver population. 10 All these coalitions were incomplete and dorsally based, and dorsal ligaments were absent. There is a large discrepancy between the observed prevalence of 2% in a cadaver population and the low incidence of ICTC in living subjects or in the clinical literature.…”

Capitate-trapezoid synostosis: analysis of an Early Bronze Age case and review of the literature

“…This estimate does not include the study performed by Alemohammad et al [1], who found 5 CTS out of 39 wrists affected by carpal bossing. As these figures are not comparable with the other data of our reviewing analysis, in so far as wrist reference corresponds to an indeterminate number of subjects, we excluded them by our calculation.…”