[Kienböck's disease. Follow-up studies and therapeutic considerations (author's transl)].

This paper presents a follow-up of patients with Kienböck's disease up to 30 years after their first symptoms. Only the shortening of the radius and the grafting of the lunate with cancellous bone offers some kind of basic therapy. The intercarpal arthrodesis, the arthrodesis of the wrist and the operation named after Steinhäuser should only be considered in cases with severe deformation and disabling pain.