Home >> Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery, Volume 39, Number 6

Osteonecrosis of the metacarpal head in a patient with a prothrombin 20210A gene mutation

Authors: Björkman, Anders1; Jörgsholm, Peter1; Burtscher, Isabella2

Source: Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery, Volume 39, Number 6, December 2005 , pp. 379-381(3)

Publisher: Informa Healthcare

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Abstract:

Osteonecrosis of the metacarpal head is rare and of unknown cause. We describe a 17-year-old girl with osteonecrosis of the fourth metacarpal head and a mutated prothrombin 20210A gene, which suggests a possible relation between a hypercoagulable state and osteonecrosis of the metacarpal head.

Keywords: Osteonecrosis; metacarpal head; prothrombin gene

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02844310500228209

Affiliations: 1: Department of Hand Surgery, University Hospital Malmö, Malmö 2: Department of Radiology, University Hospital Lund, Lund, Sweden

Publication date: 2005-12-01

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