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This patient is a 42 year old male who presents to the emergency department with the chief complaint of wrist pain after a fall. The following x ray is shown. Questions: 1. Describe what you see? PA and lateral view of a wrist. Tilting of the lunate into the palm seen . Diagnosis: Perilunate dislocation 2.How does this injury occur? Fall on an outstreched hand...causing an axial load or basically put hyperdorsiflexion 3. What complications can this patient expect? Carpal instability leading to early degenerative arthritis; Avascular Trivia: What phrase is read when turning the Greatful Dead's Mars Hotel album cover upside down while looking in a mirror?
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