Introduction:

Carpal dislocations and fracture-dislocations are uncommon injuries and represent approximately 5-7% of all wrist injuries, or about 10% of all carpal injuries. Multiple treatments are proposed to treat these injuries. The aim of our paper is to review the evidence about the treatment of lesser arc perilunate dislocations and to assess the results of the different therapeutic methods.

Material and methods:

A systematic review was carried out through the electronic search engines PubMed, Bireme and Timbó. The search reached a total of 898 articles, according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 16 works were selected to carry out our systematic bibliographic review.

Results:

The majority of the studies analyzed are retrospective case series studies, level of evidence IV. Our results are based on the extraction of data only from minor arc lesions of said works. Five subgroups were performed according to the type of treatment to analyze the results.

Discussion:

The different therapeutic methods were analyzed and clinical, functional and radiographic parameters were compared during follow-up.

Conclusion:

There are no significant differences, in terms of the scores used, between closed reduction and percutaneous fixation or open reduction and ligament repair.