Introduction The aim of this study was to compare a combination of three commonly used tests to identify scaphoid fractures with MRI in patients with normal x-ray after a wrist trauma. Patients and ...

Background A clinically suspected scaphoid fracture with normal initial plain x-rays is a difficult but common ... Conclusions MRI is a useful and effective tool in the diagnosis of radiologically ...

Posteroanterior view of the left wrist. Sclerotic margins at ... (SLAC), likely secondary to a chronic scaphoid waist fracture. Similarly, MRI plays a significant role in the detection of ...

This suggests that radiographs not only miss scaphoid but also many other carpal and distal radius fractures. Solutions should be found to solve this problem and probably advanced imaging techniques ...

No fracture is identified ... Semipronated oblique radiograph of the wrist demonstrates the scaphoid waist and the scaphotrapezial joint. In evaluating standard wrist or hand radiographs, it ...

1 We present the X-rays of a 25-year-old man who fell from a height of approximately 2 metres onto an extended wrist. Plain radiographs (figure 1) show classical signs of a trans-scaphoid perilunate ...

A 26-year-old man who had fractured his scaphoid four weeks previously presented with persistent wrist pain. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a fracture line through the scaphoid waist (Figure ...

A common type of wrist fracture is a scaphoid fracture ... you may be sent for a computed tomography (CT) scan or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). They can spot soft-tissue problems and fractures ...

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