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Anatomical study of distal ulna and correlation with the etiology of wrist pain and gender (919.17)
Author(s) -
Barros Mirna,
Costa Antonio,
Vuono Luciana Vuono,
Chakkour Ivan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.28.1_supplement.919.17
Subject(s) - ulna , medicine , cadaveric spasm , etiology , wrist , orthopedic surgery , wrist pain , orthodontics , radiography , anatomy , radiology , surgery
Objective: A frequent complain in orthopedic clinic is an unspecific pain in the wrist, that can have or not relation whit history of trauma. We could observe, during these evaluations that radiologic study of these wrist have demonstrate a variation in ulna distal morphology. The present study was done to evaluate the variations in morphology of the distal ulna extremity, and observe de relationship whit the variants gender and etiology. Methods: This evaluation was done in two phases, initially with the evaluation of ulna curvature obtained from cadaveric, and in a second phase with study of radiography obtained in orthopedic ambulatorial assessment. We imported the radiographs to Auto Cad® 2006, and draw a longitudinal line, tangent to medial border of diafise, and another one transversal to ulna head. We divided this line in three, and analyzed in which third the longitudinal line crossed it. The results of this second phase were correlated to the variants sex and etiology, demonstrating statistics significance with gender (p = 0.0062), but no statistics significance with etiology (p = 0.1602). Conclusion: Thedistal ulna presents a variable curvature that has demonstrated relationship whit sex.