PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Manak, Pavel
AU  - Drac, Pavel
AU  - Paucek, Boris
TI  - SPONTANEOUS CONSOLIDATION OF SCAPHOID NONUNION IN A CHILD
DP  - 2008 Dec 1
TA  - Biomedical papers
PG  - 271--273
VI  - 152
IP  - 2
AID - 10.5507/bp.2008.042
IS  - 12138118
AB  - BACKGROUND: Scaphoid nonunion is very rare in childhood.
CASE REPORT: A 14 year old boy with scaphoid nonunion confirmed with CT did not past scheduled surgery. In spite of the short period of immobilisation union occurred and two years after the injury he was completely asymptomatic.
CONCLUSIONS: We suspect that injury to the scaphoid, in this case may have accelerated the union shortly before the end of ossification.