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Triangular fibrocartilage rupture and ulnar styloid fracture: dry arthroscopy surgery

The patient, 19, presents instability in the left wrist and pain at its ulnar edge. The symptoms, which limit its functionality, appear after a second injury (he had suffered a previous wrist fracture in childhood) and have their origin in a pseudoarthrosis of the ulnar styloid and the rupture of the insertion of the triangular fibrocartilage (TFC) in the ulnar fovea (bony cavity next to the styloid).

10 May, 2021 | artroscopia seca @en, cirugía de la mano, cirugía de muñeca @en, Dr. Piñal, dry arthroscopy, estiloides cubital, fóvea, Francisco del Piñal, hand surgery, inestabilidad en la muñeca @en, pseudoarthrosis of the ulnar styloid, pseudoartrosis de la estiloides cubital, triangular fibrocartilage, triangular fibrocartilage injury, ulnar pain, ulnar styloid, wrist instability, wrist surgery |

What’s behind ulnar pain?: triangular fibrocartilage and other pathologies

The wrist is one of the most anatomically complex parts of the human skeleton. Its location acts as a link between the forearm and the hand,

28 April, 2021 | capsular tears, cúbito plus, dry arthroscopy, esguinces en el lado cubital de la muñeca, estiloides cubital, fóvea, radius, radius fractures, rotura del fibrocartílago triangular, roturas capsulares, síndrome de impactación cubital, sprains on the ulnar side of the wrist, tendinitis del tendón cubital posterior, tendonitis of the extensor carpi ulnaris, triangular fibrocartilage injury, triangular fibrocartilage rupture, ulna, ulna plus, ulnar impaction syndrome, ulnar styloid, wrist fractures, wrist instability |

Triangular fibrocartilage injury: surgery on posterior tear

The triangular fibrocartilage is in the ulnar side of the wrist and is a major cause of pain in the area. This diagnostic label can include up to 60 different pathologies in just one square centimeter of body surface (1).

29 March, 2016 | arthroscopy, artroscopia @en, artroscopia seca @en, cirugía de muñeca @en, Dr. Del Piñal, Dr. Piñal, dry arthroscopy, triangular fibrocartilage, triangular fibrocartilage injury, wrist surgery |