Isolated Scaphoid Dislocation Secondary to Pseudogout Arthritis: A Case Report
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: A 69-year-old male laborer with a prolonged history of untreated gouty arthritis in the wrist with an atraumatic isolated scaphoid dislocation requiring urgent salvage procedure in the form of proximal row carpectomy. Few isolated scaphoid dislocations have been reported in the literature. They usually are a result of high-energy mechanisms. To our knowledge, no atraumatic, isolated scaphoid dislocations with underlying pseudogout have been described in the literature. This report describes one such case and brings attention to the importance of treatment of inflammatory arthropathies in the carpus due to its effect on the integrity of the carpus and the scaphoid in particular.
Source: Cureus
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.80651
Authors: Wojciech K Dzieza, Marco A Foreman, Persis D Desai, Morad Chughtai, Anton Khlopas, Jongmin Kim
Language: English
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408489148