title: Imaging the symptomatic wrist.
abstract: 1. Imaging studies are useful adjuncts to clinical evaluation. 2. Conventional radiographs remain the keystone of the imaging evaluation of wrist disorders owing to their broad survey capabilities and cost-effectiveness. 3. CT and MRI are excellent to delineate process extent and to improve lesion characterization. 4. MRI and nuclear medicine provide for greater sensitivity for detection and activity of disease, but at a cost of less specificity and greater expense.
authors.affiliation: Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Linn
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Mann
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Gilula
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001170:Arthritis, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002908:Chronic Disease; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014954:Wrist Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014955:Wrist Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology