- See:
- Bower's Procedure
- Discussion:
- invovles resection of ulnar articular head, leaving shaft and styloid relationship intact;
- interpositional anchovy of tendon is placed in cavity to limit contact of radial & ulnar shafts which may migrate to each other after this procedure;
- should be considered before performing Darrah procedure;
- Indications:
- indicated for rheumatoid patients in early stages of the disease;
- requires that TFCC is intact or reconstructible;
- w/o intact or reconstructible TFCC, there is no advantage over Darrah procedure;
- in RA: TFCC will frequently be damaged, and one should instead consider modified Darrah procedure with a radiolunate arthrodesis;
- another alternative is a Sauve-Kapandji procedure