Arthritis is a broad descriptive term for inflammation and possible damage to joints due to a variety of possible etiologies. Clinically, it is characterized by joint pain, tenderness, limitation of ...
As with plain radiography and arthrography, CT employs ionizing radiation. It allows three-dimensional visualization of the carpal bones and provides soft tissue detail. Helical CT, also known as ...
Your wrist is one of the most complicated and frequently used joints in your body. Because your wrist contains so many bones, ligaments, and muscles, it’s easy to injure. SLAC wrist is a type of wrist ...
The scaphoid bone is one of the eight smaller carpal bones in your wrist. It lies on the thumb side of your wrist right below the radius, one of the two larger bones in your forearm. It’s involved in ...
Fracture: A fracture is a break in the bone or cartilage. Fractures are also named by the trauma event that cause the bone breakage. Chronic pain: Pain that occurs of long duration pain. Arthritis: A ...
A healthy 22-year-old right hand-dominant woman sustained an isolated, right lunate dislocation and ulnar styloid fracture after a fall while bicycling at an approximate speed of 5 miles per hour ...
A scaphoid (carpal navicular) fracture is the displacement of one of the eight bones of the wrist joint. It is located between the radius bone of your forearm and the base of the thumb. You can ...
A scaphoid fracture involves a break of one of the bones on the thumb side of the wrist. The scaphoid bone plays a role in the ability to move the wrist joint. There are surgical and nonsurgical ...
A man in his mid-20s presents to the emergency department (ED) with left wrist pain. He states that he fell dancing at a concert last night and was hoping it would feel better today, but instead, it ...
Radiologic evaluation of sports injuries of the wrist and hand should commence with plain radiographs. Although plain radiography provides information in only two dimensions and cannot give detailed ...