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. 2012 Aug;1(1):39–46. doi: 10.1055/s-0032-1323643

Table 4. Postoperative Complications.

Patient Complications That Required Implant Revision Treatment
4 Aseptic loosening secondary to “poly disease” Revision distal radius hemiarthroplasty
7 Aseptic loosening secondary to “poly disease” Revision distal radius hemiarthroplasty
Patient Other Complications Treatment
2 Left wrist contracture, bone spur development, and extensor tendon adhesion Capsulectomy, bone spur removal and tenolysis respectively
3 Clicking during full flexion, pain accompanied by subchondral cysts, and degenerative changes in the capitate and hamate Currently under observation
5 Ulnar tunnel syndrome Ulnar nerve neurolysis and ulnar tunnel decompression
6 Right wrist contracture and extensor tendon adhesions Capsulotomy and ECRL ECRB tenolysis
8 Wrist stiffness, pisotriquetral arthritis, ulnar tunnel syndrome, and extensor tenosynovitis of small finger Capsulectomy, pisiformectomy, ulnar tunnel release, and steroid injection respectively
9 Flexor tenosynovitis Flexor tenosynovectomy
10 Asymptomatic osteolysis Nonea

ECRB, extensor carpi radialis brevis; ECRL, extensor carpi radialis longus; EDC, extensor digitorum communis.

a

Patient deceased shortly thereafter.