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A 45-year-old right-hand-dominant male laborer was referred to the hand center with long-standing right wrist pain. The patient’s past medical history was unremarkable, but he did admit to near-daily alcohol use and was a smoker. The patient initially injured his right wrist ~ 15 years prior to presentation while playing recreational volleyball. He was told that he had a “hairline” fracture of the scaphoid and surgical intervention was recommended. The patient initially elected for nonoperative management. The pain in his right wrist continued to progress over the years to the point where presented with difficulty grasping or reaching for objects. His pain was rated as an 8/10 on a visual analog scale, and he was unable to identify any alleviating factors.
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Gaston, R., Wilson, M. (2015). Scaphoid Nonunion Advanced Collapse: Capitolunate Arthrodesis. In: Yao, J. (eds) Scaphoid Fractures and Nonunions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18977-2_24
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