1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan.
Tokuyoshi Yamagiwa ✉ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, 1-1, Mukogawa-cho, Nishinomiya, 663-8501 Japan. Email: yamagiwa@hyo-med.ac.jp
Publish Date
Received: 24-08-2009 Accepted: 30-09-2009 Published (online): 01-12-2009
Tokuyoshi Yamagiwa, Hiroyuki Fujioka, Hiroaki Okuno, Masaki Tomatsuri, Juichi Tanaka, Shinichi Yoshiya. (2009) Surgical Treatment of Stress Fracture of the Scaphoid of an Adolescent Gymnast. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine(08), 702 - 704.
Tokuyoshi Yamagiwa, Hiroyuki Fujioka, Hiroaki Okuno, Masaki Tomatsuri, Juichi Tanaka, Shinichi Yoshiya. (2009) Surgical Treatment of Stress Fracture of the Scaphoid of an Adolescent Gymnast. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine(08), 702 - 704.
Stress fracture of the carpal scaphoid is very rare. We present stress fracture of the scaphoid in an adolescent gymnast who was treated with internal fixation.
Key words:
Stress fracture, scaphoid, gymnast.
Key
Points
There is a risk of stress fracture of the scaphoid in gymnast.
Internal fixation with a screw is one of the good options for stress fracture of the scaphoid.
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