Kienböck's disease
Kienböck's disease is a disorder of the wrist. It is named for Dr. Robert Kienböck, a radiologist in Vienna, Austria who described osteomalacia of the lunate in 1910.

It is breakdown of the lunate bone, a carpal bone in the wrist that articulates with the radius in the forearm. Specifically, Kienböck's disease is another name for avascular necrosis (death and fracture of bone tissue due to interruption of blood supply) with fragmentation and collapse of the lunate. This has classically been attributed to arterial disruption, but may also occur after events that produce venous congestion with elevated interosseous pressure.
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wrist
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Robert Kienböck
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radiologist
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Vienna, Austria
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osteomalacia
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lunate bone
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carpal bone
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wrist
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radius
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avascular necrosis
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Kienböck's disease
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Kienböck's disease
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1910-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1910
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