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Carpal dislocations can be divided into five separate groups: perilunate, radiocarpal, axial, carpometacarpal, and isolated carpal bone dislocations. The most frequent traumatic carpal dislocations are perilunate dislocations or fracture dislocations.
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Apergis, E. (2013). Introduction. In: Fracture-Dislocations of the Wrist. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5328-1_1
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