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When a completely torn scapholunate ligament is associated with a deficiency of the distal joints of the scaphoid base, there is a scapholunate instability. A scapholunate diastasis, a lunate extension (DISI) and a rotary subluxation of the scaphoid appear. When this pathologic flexion of the scaphoid (radio-scaphoidal angle >45°) is still reducible, and before arthrosis appears, preserving treatments aiming at reconstructing good scapholunate congruence are indicated [1]. Among the different capsular techniques, tendinous or ligamentous as proposed in literature, one of them, as described by R. Berger [2] particularly called our attention and is to be explained.
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Dréant, N. (2013). Berger’s Capsulodesis with Dorsal Intercarpal Ligament in Chronic Scapholunate Instability. In: Camus, E., Van Overstraeten, L. (eds) Carpal Ligament Surgery. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-8178-0379-1_21
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