Sentence examples for lunate bone from inspiring English sources
noun
One of the carpal bones of the wrist.
In humans the radiale forms the scaphoid bone; the intermedium forms the lunate bone; the ulnare forms the triquetral.
(B) SPECT/CT revealed an intense radioisotope uptake in the lunate bone corresponding with osteomalacia of the lunate bone followed by surgery (top row: three-dimensional (3D -SPECT and fusion SPECT/CT, bottom row: planar SPECT and CT-alone).
The so-called rescue operations in case of arthrosis are styloidectomy, denervation of the carpal joint, and the total or partial removal of the scaphoid with four-quadrant fusion (lunate bone, triquetral bone, capitate bone and hamate bone).
In addition to the focal increased uptake identified at the distal radius and distal carpal bone, focal uptake is identified in the lunate bone only on the CZT data (arrow) Fig. 4 A 71-year-old man with rheumatoid arthritis.
Dislocation in this region requires rapid realignment, as untreated perilunate dislocation or dislocation of the lunate bone will lead to serious secondary damage, which can only be treated by salvage operations involving loss of function [10].
Of note, none of the patients with bone marrow edema of the lunate bone had radiographic abnormalities.
Scapholunate dissociation is the loss of synchronous motion or normal alignment between the scaphoid and lunate bones usually from ligamentous injury [7, 8].
The other patient exhibited small cystic changes of both lunate bones but no definitive erosions on X-ray, whereas low-field MRI clearly showed bilateral lunate erosions.
While bone marrow edema could affect most bones of the carpus and metacarpus, it most frequently and most severely affected the lunate, with a definite edema occurring in 18% of lunate bones and severe edema in 11%.
Bones with end-arterial vascular supply and poor collaterals are particularly prone to develop an AVN, such as the femoral head, distal femur and proximal tibia, proximal humeri, tali, scaphoid, and lunate bones.
The lunate bones puts pressure on the lower end of the radius.
