Observational study examines ligament injuries in scaphoid fractures, suggesting standard treatment suffices.
Injury to the interosseous intercarpal ligaments causing diastasis of carpal bones is rare in patients with a scaphoid waist fracture displaced by ≤ 2 mm. Treatment of the fracture with a cast or surgical fixation, without additional imaging or intervention for a potential ligament injury, appears adequate for most fractures. If there are ligament injuries not identified with standard imaging, they do not seem to progress.
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